[publisher: H.G. Bohn, London] Hardcover First Edition Tracing monumental inscriptions from ancient to modern times, and collecting 'Epitaphs belonging to our own country as shouls mark the diversity of taste prevailing at different periods of our history'. First Edn., 1857; half brown leather; brown cloth boards; spine has raised bands, with blind-stamped pattern and titling/plain rule blocked in gilt (worn/dulled); all edges marbled; peach endpapers; v+[i]+529pp.; illus. bw. drawings. Very scuffed spine worn at top and rubbed at tail; soiled/scuffed boards worn at corners and rubbed at edges; split (approx. 30mm) to leather of rear joint at top (hinge not affected);front free-endpaper excised; endpapers slightly soiled, but text very fresh, pages crisp and very clean/bright. Binding secure, textually all complete/intact. Contemporary notes/more epitaphs very neatly handwritten in ink to blank flyleaves at rear; name/date written in ink to front paste-down endpaper at top corner. Fair. PRICE INCLUDES UK POSTAGE & PACKING.
[Norwich, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1857]

[publisher: H. G. Bohn, London, 1857, Bohn's Antiquarian Library series.] Hardcover hardback, 8vo, vi,529pp, lacks prelims before title ppage, edges browning, some pencil marginal scoring and notes in the text, contents otherwise sound, blindstamped blue cloth gilt, rebacked with spine relaid; Fair condition
[Lewes, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1857]
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[publisher: Bohn's Antiquarian Library, GB] Hardcover Fairly clean tight text in sound covcers BUT extremities of spine worn. Book is in good double plus condition with noticeable signs of wear and/or age.
[WINTERTON, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1857]

Front hinge a little weak, but all pages are tight, clean, complete and unmarked. Some fraying at head and heel of spine. Not an ex-library copy, no stickers, owner's namer, etc., A little fragile, with some age-browning of paper. Part of Bohn's Antiquarian Library. Five shillings price gilt-stamped on spine.Thomas Pettigrew (1791-1865) was an English surgeon, professor of anatomy, an antiquarian with wide-ranging interests in history and natural philosophy, and an expert on Egyptian mummies. He became surgeon to the Duke of Sussex and Duke of Kent, and was a founding member of the British Archaeological Association. Based on a life-long interest, his is one of the early works to treat extensively of the history, significance and variety of epitaphs. He provides many examples through the ages of all types of epitaphs, inscriptions and funereal motifs. This work remains a classic. Date: 1864. London, Bell & Daldy [US]

[publisher: Bohn's Antiquarian Library, GB] Hardcover First Edition Bound in dark green blind embossed cloth lettered in gold on spine with "Bohn's Antiquarian Library 5/-" at base. Book is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age.
[WINTERTON, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1857]