[Rarebooks] FS: Good Taste in Gravestones in 1923

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

TITLE: “Memorial Art”

By Huger Elliot.
Published in Cambridge by Granite, Marble & Bronze magazine in 1923.
Edition limited to 300 numbered copies.

DISCUSSION: A series of articles first published in Granite, Marble and
Bronze magazine, focusing on good taste in memorials of all types,
including tombs, columns, stones, lettering, ornament, etc., over the
centuries. The mandate of "good taste" gives the author much latitude and
gives this work some depth as an historical survey, though not a
comprehensive one. Above all, the author is distressed by the poor taste
shown in some early 20th century memorial art-

“Every kind of odd shape is used- real boulders, boulders imitated with
the chisel, masses that suggest in miniature the boxes in which upright
pianos are packed... a large marble figure (of the type one sees made of
sugar and placed on wedding cakes) posing at one corner; the distorted
imaginings of untrained minds following no precedents –striking out
blindly in search of something new”.

No, Elliot Huger was not amused.

DESCRIPTION: Hardcover. 8.5"x11", 172 pages with 13 text figures, plus 24
black & white plates.

CONDITION NOTES: Some wear and rubbing to the covers, front hinge cracked,
some scattered light internal soil, but otherwise clean.

PRICE: $125. -

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