[Rarebooks] FS: Wandering in Graveyards in 1830

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

TITLE: “Church=Yard Gleanings, and Epigrammatic Scraps: being a collection
of remarkable Epitaphs and Epigrams...”

By William Pulleyn.
Published in London by Samuel Maunder- no date, but 1830.

DISCUSSION: "Compiled from the most ancient as well as modern sources,
foreign and domestic, serious and facetious; to which are annexed some
observations on churches, church-yards, rites of sepulture, tombs, and
mausoleums; with instructions for ascertaining the dates of ancient
monuments." An early English collection, half epitaphs and half other
epigrams. The engraved frontispiece, showing the author (?) hard at work
in the middle of a graveyard, is quite charming.

DESCRIPTION: Hardcover. 4.5"x8", i-iv, vii-xxiii, 264 pages; engraved
frontispiece.

CONDITION NOTES: Bound in old boards with a plain leather spine, covers
somewhat worn and soiled; a little internal spotting.

PRICE:  $100 -

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