Antient Funeral Monuments Of Great Britain Ireland And The Islands Adjacent

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Excerpt from Antient Funeral Monuments, of Great-Britain, Ireland, and the Islands Adjacent: With the Dissolved Monasteries Therein Contained; Their Founders, and What Eminent Persons Have Been Therein Interred; As Also, the Death and Burial of Certain of the Blood-Royal, Nobility and Gentry of These Kingdoms, Entombed in Foreign Nations But, alas l this worthy repairer of eating-time's ruins, this pii I L A D E L PH U s, in preferving old monuments, and antient records: this magazine, this treafury, this fiore-houfe. Of antiquities, fir R O B E R T C o T T o N, is now lately deceafed, whofe excellent good parts are well conceived in a funeral elegy which hath happily come into my hands, and which I think fitting here to be inferted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Matthew Craske looks closely at tomb sculptures in their social context. He discusses a large number of monuments by many different sculptors, all with a knowledge of the person commemorated and the circumstances behind the commission.