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Transcription: The English dance of death. [Quotation from Horace's Odes.] Vol. I. London, published March 1, 1816, by R. Ackermann, 101, Strand.
With a picture of dancing and music playing skeletons on the title page. The frontispiece is also shown, which has a skeleton wearing a crown and sitting on a globe with an hourglass and instruments of death.
"Time and Death their thoughts impart, On works of learning and of art." Hand-colored aquatint by Thomas Rowlandson.
One man sketches from a collection of statues lining the walls, while another man reads a book. A skeleton with an hourglass and an old man with a scythe look on.
"The dangers of the ocean o'er, Death wrecks the sailors on the shore." Hand-colored aquatint by Thomas Rowlandson.
A skeleton sits on a rock facing two shipwrecked sailors, who look out to sea.
"Such is the power, & such the strife, That ends the Masquerade of Life." Hand-colored aquatint by Thomas Rowlandson.
A skeleton, in a cape and holding a mask and spear, frightens all the costumed guests at a masquerade ball.
"Death can contrive to strike his blows, by over-turns and over-throws." Hand-colored aquatint by Thomas Rowlandson.
A skeleton, riding one of the horses pulling a carriage, whips it so that the carriage and the people in it fly into the air.
"Let him go on, with all his rigs; we're safe -- He'll only burn the pigs." Hand-colored aquatint by Thomas Rowlandson.
A skeleton torches a farmhouse as two men gather buckets of water to try to put out the fire and a woman and children sit amind their belongings.
"Th' assailant does not feel a wound; But yet he dies -- for he is drown'd." Hand-colored aquatint by Thomas Rowlandson.
A young man climbing a ladder to read a young woman is shot at by an older man as a skeleton pushes his ladder away from the window.