[Rarebooks] FS: Memorials of the Dead in Boston in 1853

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

"Memorials of the Dead in Boston; containing exact transcripts of
Inscriptions on the Sepulchral Monuments in the King's Chapel Burial
Ground, in the City of Boston"

By Thomas Bridgman. Published in Boston by Benjamin B. Mussey & Co. in 1853.

King's Chapel Burial Ground was the first ground set apart for burial of
the dead in the city of Boston, the first recorded burial taking place
there in 1630. Here are buried members of some of the oldest Boston
families. Bridgman supplies an interesting transcription of early American
gravestone inscriptions; two years earlier he wrote a similar book on
Boston's Copp's Hill Burial Ground.

Hardcover. 5"x8", 339 + 17 pages, frontispiece plan of King's Chapel
Burial Ground, several family coats of arms illustrated in the text; gilt
pictorial covers. Covers rubbed and with chipping along the hinges on the
spine, spine head chipped [please see the photos below]. Some internal
spotting. $175.00

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