La grande danse Macabre des hommes et des femmes : précédée du dict des trois mors et dfs trois vifz, du Débat du corps et de l'âme, et de La complaincte de l'ame dampnée
A nineteenth-century Paris reprint, published by the bookseller Baillieu in 1862, of the medieval French Danse Macabre, a set of woodcut scenes pairing skeletons with the living from every rank of society. The pictures are dense black-line woodcuts on cream paper, with skeletons leading clergy, knights, merchants and women in a procession, and a designer could take their stiff pairings, hatched shading and compact frames as a model for macabre or satirical scenes.
