8vo. (7 x 5 inches), full crushed tan goatskin with a pair of double gilt fillet borders, the innermost with corner flourishes. In the center is a gilt medallion portrait of Holbein; spine with four raised bands and gilt decoration and titling. Slightlt rubbed extremities but a very solid, attractive binding by Walter Tiemann.The work is comprised of the forty woodcuts made for the first Holbein edition, printed in Lyon: Les Simulachres & histoirees faces de la Mort. There is no text, and all the information about the prints is furnished on the colophon page, which declares that the edition consists of 800 numbered copies of which 100 were printed on handmade paper by E.A. Enders in Leipzig. One hundred copies of the deluxe edition were then hand-bound by Tiemann. The imaages are superbly printed after the images in the Königlichen Kupferstichkabinett in Berlin. Fine and uncommon.