The next Edition, in Point of Time, which I have seen, I conceive to have been the first that appeared in Latin, and it was printed in Duodecimo, at Lyons, _sub scuto Coloniensi_, by JOHN and FRANCIS FRELLON, in 1542. It contains the same Number of Cuts (and no more) as that of 1538, and is entitled, “_Imagines de Morte, et Epigrammata e Gallico idiomate a Georgio Æmylio in Latinum translata_;” from whence it appears that it is, in Fact, a Translation of the French Edition of 1538. This also contains some additional Tracts, all differing from those in the Edition of 1538, but not in the least relating to the present Inquiry, and therefore not here particularized, though they have been continued through almost all the subsequent Impressions, and have been given respectively in French, Latin, and Italian, according as the Verses under the Cuts to the IMAGINES MORTIS were in one or other of those Languages.
In 1547, another Edition was published of this Book, in French; it was entitled, “_Les Images de la Mort_,” and printed at Lyons, _A l’Escu de Cologne, Chez JEHAN FRELLON_; the Title-Page also informs us that twelve Cuts are added to it, and on Examination we find that the Cuts inserted in Page 40, and the seven subsequent Pages of this Work, and four Cuts of Boys, which, as not relating to this Subject, are in the present Edition omitted (none of which occur in either the French Edition of 1538, or the Latin one of 1542, the only two prior Editions that I know of) are to be found in this of 1547[15].
In the same Year, viz. 1547, but whether prior or subsequent to the last above mentioned, cannot be known, another Latin Edition appeared, printed at Lyons by the same JOHN FRELLON, and containing the same increased Number of Cuts as the French one of the same Year, that is to say, fifty-three in all; and the same JOHN FRELLON, in 1549, printed an Edition of this Work in Italian and Latin, the Passages from Scripture over the Cuts being in Latin, and the Verses under the Cuts in Italian; and this also contains the same Number of Cuts with the two last-mentioned Editions: But PAPILLON, P. 169, remarks that the Blocks, when this Edition of 1549 was printed, had already furnished more than an hundred-thousand Impressions, for that in some Places they appear to be worn.