Volume 1

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.

  • Dagley, Richard, -1841.
Date:
1827
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

    25/290 (page 1)
    DEATHS DOINGS. INTRODUCTION. It is difficult, if not impossible, in this our day of accumulated literature, to start any thing new ; yet, rather than close their labours for “lack of argu- ment,” our literary adventurers ransack every cor- ner for subject matter; and, to stimulate the public appetite, old viands are served up in new dishes, either of plate, china, or delf, as best may suit the taste or the means of the bookish epicure. How far the subject now offered may be relished by the generality, remains to be tried. It will not want the seasoning of antiquity to recommend it, being nearly as old as the Creation ; and, if a judg- ment may be formed from the number of works, both literary and graphic, which have appeared in ancient and modern times, and the avidity with which they u