Author: Edited by Edmund Stedman
In like-new condition: tight binding
with light faded stains
with many changes occurring in the rights of Women in the United States
Decorated green cloth boards with gilt on top edge and hand-cut pages
FUNERAL CUSTOMS - 1st 1926 - DEATH BURIAL MOURNING GRAVES RITES CEREMONIES ANTIQUE & VINTAGE ART Author: Edited by Edmund StedmanFUNERAL 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