Epitaphs (10 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Fine Slipcase. First Edition. Hartford, CT: The Ancient Burying Ground Association, Inc., 1994. First edition, 1994. Specially bound edition gifted to a donor with transmittal letter from the Ancient Buyring Ground Association. Marbled boards with bright red leatherette spine printed in gilt, textured red slipcase. Includes the separate burying ground guide and grave location index. Fine condition, looks and feels new and unread, tight binding, clean pages, no names or other markings, slipcase also in fine condition. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine Slipcase. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

Gebunden. Zustand: New.

Disbound. Engr. title-page: Historical description of the monastery and chapel royal of Holyroodhouse. 124 p.: 8 pl. (1 fold.); 21 cm. Good, removed. Moderately foxed. Engraved title-page edgeworn.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Hardback. No Dustjacket. Small 4to. Oval photograph onset to cover. Green cloth gilt. pp viii, 127. Mounted photo frontis and 3 more mounted photos in good state. Churchyard poetry. No date (1880's). Some mottling and slight staining to spine and rear cover otherwise sound near VG. One very short tear to pps 77/78, not affecting text in any way.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. Handset in Monotype Garamond and printed in grey and red. One of 10 (150) special copies printed on Japanese Mungei (sic) paper. Unsewn leaves loose in French-folded (Canson-mi-teintes?) scarlet paper covers. A fine copy. Rare. (Askam A1:) Anthony Baker started his publishing career with this small collection of epitaphs, distributed free to friends and acquaintances as a Christmas greeting . The special copies are incorrectly described in the colophon as being printed on Mungei (a misspelling of Mingei), rather than the Gifu Shoji they were actually printed on.…

Zustand: Very good. 4to. Notebook ruled in plummet, containing 79 pp. of very neat written text (the remaining pages blank). Laid in are 4 additional leaves with 7 epitaphs written by other hands (see below). Bound and/or sold by by Abraham Johnson, Stationer, Hull: original flexible black roan, comb-marbled endpapers, marbled edges (extremities worn, internally excellent). PURE ENGLISH ANTIQUARIANISM: A VICTORIAN MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION OF MORE THAN 100 EPITAPHS FROM ALL OVER THE UNITED KINGDOM AND IRELAND. Included are transcriptions of obscure epitaphs from tiny village cemeteries and remote areas, many of which do not appear in published sources. The epitaphs are highly eclectic; whereas only small percentage are assigned to named persons, all are localized with the names of specific parishes, villages, towns or cities from where they were collected. Some epitaphs are dated, the earliest being 1598 (Spencer's tomb in Westminster), the latest 1875-1876 (Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire). Indeed, portions of the manuscript were almost compiled "in the field" and not merely copied from published collections of facetious ephitaphs that were enormously popular in the 19th century among antiquarians and "common readers" alike. For instance, following the nine sequential examples recorded at Cleethorpes cited above, there are eleven at Edington, Wilts; eight at Spital Cemetery, Aberdeen; eleven at Old Houff, Dundee; and six at the Constitution Burying Ground, Dundee (which was destroyed in 1963 and replaced with a multi-storey carpark, the bodies having been re-interred within the common ground in the Eastern Cemetery). The present MS was written on laid paper watermarked "J. Allen & Sons Superfine 1873." It is possible that the text was "crowd-sourced." Laid in are 4 sheets of different types of paper, on which were written 7 epitaphs by different hands. One of the sheets records an epitaph dated 1877. The collection ranges from the poignant ("Her life was short, her death severe") to charmingly "everydays epitaph" such as the following examples selected by us (almost) at random: "My name it was Nathaniel Frier I loved and laughed but now I'm here. Such as I am - such you must be Then make your grave & follow me." -- Elshaw, Northants. "Here lies John Higley, whose Father & Mother were doomed on their passage from America. Had both lived they would have been buried here." -- Belturbet, Ireland. "Neath this stone Jack Webber lies, Rich as Croesus, as Solomon wise. He lived a Fool and died the same. Happy are they who live & die like him." -- Steepleton (about four miles from Blandford, Dorset. NB: this same epitaph was copied by George Parker and published in the Hampshire Antiquary and Naturalist, 1891, vol. I, p. 23, but with significant variants in the text. Which one is correct?) "My wife she's dead & here she lies There's nobody laughs and nobody cries. Where she's gone and how she fares Nobody knows and nobody cares." -- Stepney "Sacred to the memory of Miss Martha Gwynn, Who was so very pure within, She burst the outer shell of sin, And hatched herself a cherubim." -- St. Albans, Herts. "Shall wee all die? Wee shall die all. All die shall wee? Die all wee shall." -- Gunwallow, near Helston, Cornwall (population in 2011, including the parish of Berepper: 219). "Stranger! pass on nor idly waste your time On bad biography nor bitter rhyme For what I am this cumberous clay ensures But what I was is no affair of yours." -- Peterborough. Highly curious. …