FUNERAL CUSTOMS - 1st 1926 - DEATH BURIAL MOURNING GRAVES RITES CEREMONIES STERLING SILVER full of fascinating information

full of fascinating information

Book Details + Condition: Original green cloth with black titling to spine and front cover

WHITE AND BLACK ART FOR MAN AND BEAST

Contains 14 engraved plates of birds

FUNERAL CUSTOMS - 1st 1926 - DEATH BURIAL MOURNING GRAVES RITES CEREMONIES STERLING SILVER full of fascinating informationFUNERAL CUSTOMS: THEIR ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT Book Details + Condition: T. Werner Laurie LTD. (London). First Edition, 1926. 283 pages. Hardcover with original dust jacket. Scarce treatise on funeral customs from antiquity to the early 20th century, with chapters including "Preparation for Burial, Coffins, Grave Goods, Suttee," "Wakes, Mutes, Wailers, Sin Eating, Totemism, Death Taxes," and "Churchyards, Cemeteries, Orientation and Other Burial