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<dl><dd>Binding: decorative paper wrappers</dd>
<dd>Letterpress text set in a slightly modified Scotch Roman font, which dates this ed. no earlier than ca. 1820. The paper and binding evidence of other known copies also support this date</dd>
<dd>Engraved allegorical title page</dd>
<dd>The 12 engraved illustrations depict Death, the Last Judgment, Hell, and Paradise; most interpret a Latin phrase included in the illustration</dd>
<dd>Each illustration has 2 letterpress quatrains below</dd>
<dd>Printed on rectos only</dd>
<dd>The illustrations originally appeared in an ed. containing 92, [2] p., pub. Antwerp, 1715 with imprint at foot of engraved title page: En Amveres, Por Henrico é Cornelio Verdussen, 1715. In this ed., the illustrations have been printed from the same plates; but the text is entirely different, and the imprint has been burnished from the title page and replaced with a Portuguese translation of a verse from Ecclesiastes</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Death; Hell; Judgment Day; Eschatology; Emblems (allegorical pictures)</div>
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