Throughout the history of mankind we live with the knowledge that we will one day die, these images, both morbid and beautiful, illustrate this inescapable fact. Regardless of race, class, wealth, or creed, we are all in the throes of the dance of the dead. This book includes all forty-one of the original woodcuts and stylized alphabet depicting the Danse Macabre by Hans Holbein the Younger, one of the major figures of the genre.