Epitaphs and Images from Scottish Graveyards [Paperback]

Betty Willsher (Author)

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Publication Date: March 1997

This is an illustrated collection of epitaphs divided into sections, such as death, resurrection, the professions and trades, eulogies and epitaphs quaint and curious. The book contains a wide range of photographs depicting the stones on which the epitaphs are carved or written. Many of the stones are artfully sculpted indicators of the fashions of past times. Some of the stones are eccentric and peculiar, but all yield insights into the society of times past. The epitaphs tell about the people buried in the churchyards: fragments of the lives and characters of pedlars and gamekeepers; and ministers and authors who may have lived in very different times, but certainly had their mortality in common with us.

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Product Details

Paperback: 122 pages
Publisher: Interlink Pub Group Inc (March 1997)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0862415918
ISBN-13: 978-0862415914
Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 7.3 x 0.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,470,596 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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First Sentence:
The most satisfying way to read an epitaph is to decipher it from a gravestone in the kirkyard. Read the first page

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East Lothian, Greyfriars Burial Ground, John Milne

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This book cites 6 books:

Mary Queen of Scots by James Brown on page 71
Book of Common Prayer (1979, Personal Size Economy, Black) by The Episcopal Church on page 77
Robert Burns Eman Poet Lib #16 (Everyman Poetry) by Robert Burns on page 6
The Tree of Life - Selections from the Literature of the World's Religions by Ruth Smith on page 107
St Andrews: The Old Course and Open Champions by David Joy on page 120

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3 books cite this book:

Making Sense of Dying and Death by Andrew Fagan on page 28, and page 29
Death, Burial and Commemoration in Ireland, 1550-1650 by Clodagh Tait in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
Mortuary Monuments and Burial Grounds of the Historic Period (Manuals in Archaeological Method, Theory and Technique) by Harold Mytum in Back Matter

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