Memento Mori and Depictions of Death: An Image Archive for Artists and Designers by Vault Editions is a brilliantly curated pictorial archive of images exploring arguably one of the most compelling tropes in art, the inevitability of death.

This book features an extensive range of 17th and 18th-century etchings and engravings of memento mori artworks and symbolism, the Grim Reaper, death, scenes of war and execution, corpses and much more.