Sepulchral gleanings : or, A collection of epitaphs, ancient, modern, curious, instructive, and moral, as actually and accurately taken from various parts of England, including those in the vicinity of London and Westminster, forming a complete mirror of mortality, and calculated (in an unusual degree) to promote the cause of virtue and religion

William Snow

London : Snow, 1817

[Thanatology: A Rare Collection of epitaphs] Bound in contemporary blue boards. Rebacked.  142 pages ; 20 cm.  One example: "Mrs. Ann Preston - Her days in cheerful converse flew, Nor envy, nor ambition knew; Virtue and truth her only pride, Belov'd she liv'd, in peace she died."  "Edward Colfer, Esq. 1657, "He learnt to die while he had breath, And so he lives e'en after death."  A morbidly curious which Edward Gorey should have illustrated.