"Death's Doings: Consisting of Numerous Original Compositions, in Verse and Prose, the Friendly Contributions of Various Writers; Principally Intended as Illustrations of Thirty Copper-Plates, Designed and Etched by R. Dagley, Author of 'Select Gems from the Antique', &c. Vol. II, From the Second London Edition, with Considerable Additions." [Title page]


"His Death's Doings was a meditation on death, prompted by the example of by Holbein's Dance of Death.[6] Dagley wrote "I have endeavoured to show the way a certain class of writing may be embellished without incurring the expense of those laboured and highly finished engravings which make a work prohibitively expensive"." [Wikipedia]


472 pp 8vo. Volume II only.  Brown leather boards with gilt title on black field to spine.  Some owner inscriptions ca. 1832 in front matter.  Some shelf wear and foxing throughout, especially on plates.  Rear endpaper splitting, but binding is solid.


From Here to Infinity Gallery operates from an historic 1840's building in beautiful downtown Brockville, Ontario. Purveyor of the unique, the gallery also operates an archive holding thousands of historical negatives and photographic prints as well as an eclectic collection of antiquarian and fine books, ephemera and other interesting paper and historically viable items.