* Text is in German * Das Unsterbliche Bildnis: Europaeische Gravierte Metallgrabplatten Vom 12. Bis Zum 17. Jahrhundert (Translation: The Immortal Image: European Engraved Brasses of the 12th to the 17th Century) Forty 37 x 54 cm individual sheets with reproductions of rubbings of European monumental brasses of the 12th-17th centuries (including 18 from the UK). Sheets of tissue interleaved. One 37 x 54 cm, 39-page pamphlet in German providing notes. All contained in a 37 x 54 x 4 cm clothbound case. The book gives a survey of the origins and the prime of engraved brass grave plates in Europe, their dispersal area and the material and technical preconditions for this branch of art. A variety of motifs to be found on the grave plates are dealt with in their paleographical, art historical and emblematical interconnections, and we get a vivid impression of the persons represented on the plates, their social background, the costumes and garments they wear. The representations on the br