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The Last Act : Being the Funeral Rites of Nations and Individuals
by Tegg, William
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/N/A
- Seller
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Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
London, United Kingdom: William Tegg & Co , 1876. Collected rituals and anecdotes from ancient times, different cultures to more recently. Covers discusions on the opening of churchyards to dissenters, the new craze for modern garden cemeteries, cremation and reforms in public health. CONDITION Green cloth with bevelled edges, Black decorative borders and bright Gilt titles, the frontispiece illustrates Siemens' cremation apparatus, 404pp, tinted lithograph frontispiece and extra title, 30 page publishers list bound in to rear. one wood block illus of 'patent necropolis earth to earth coffin. Internally bright and crisp, spine ends starting to fray, shaken at joints exposing mull which is intact, rear Name and book plate inside to eps, contemporary name and date at top of frontis illus.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/N/A. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ariel Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14937
- Title
- The Last Act : Being the Funeral Rites of Nations and Individuals
- Author
- Tegg, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- N/A
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- William Tegg & Co
- Place of Publication
- London, United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1876
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
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About the Seller
Ariel Books
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Auckland
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- 12mo
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Crisp
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- New
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Spine
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