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Stranger Stop and Cast an Eye
A Guide to Gravestones & Gravestone Rubbings
G. Walker Jacobs
Hardbound with original dust jacket
123 pages with complete index
Profusely Illustrated
Publisher: S. Greene Press
Date Published: 1972
The author presents some useful general information aboug graveyards, gravestones, and the art of rubbing. Then in easy-to-follow, step-by-step fashion she details the four basic methods by which carvings on stone can be transferred to paper.
She also describes the principal motifs used in New England stone carving and the significance of such symbols as the winged death's head, the winged cherub, the urn-and-willow, angels, arrows, imps of death, urns-and-mermaids, and other symbols, some older than Christianity itself, that express the hopes and fears of their makers.
This volume came from the collection of a discrete owner.
The book has been gently read, and the pages are clean and bright
with gentle light wear to it's cover.
Order by ITEM #BKS-237-08
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