 | Gravestones of Early New England and the Men Who Made Them 1653-1800 by Harriette Merrifield Forbes
Classic by the woman who inspired the development of the field
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 | Graven Images: New England Stonecarving and its Symbols, 1650-1815 by Allen Ludwig
Buy new: $26.56 / Used from: $17.98 Beautifully written and photographed
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| The Masks of Orthodoxy: Folk Gravestone Carving in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, 1689-1805 by Peter Benes
Buy used from: $19.00 Great text and pictures. Comprehensive.
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| Colonial Burying Grounds of Eastern Connecticut and the Men Who Made Them (Memoirs of the Connecticut Academy of Arts & Sciences, July 1987, Vol Xxi) by James A. Slater
Buy used from: $200.00 Immpeccably researched and written, nicely illustrated
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| Puritan Gravestone Art II (The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife Annual Proceedings 1978, Voluem II)
Buy used from: $33.50 Dublin Seminar compilations are always full of up to date, well researched info
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| Markers VI: Journal of the Association for Gravestone Studies (Vol 6)
Buy used from: $47.99 Assoc of Gravestone Studies promotes research and preservation
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 | The Puritan Way of Death: A Study in Religion, Culture, and Social Change (Galaxy Books) by David E. Stannard
Buy new: $19.98 / Used from: $1.79 Why they did funeral things the way they did
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 | The Sacred Remains: American Attitudes Toward Death, 1799-1883 by Professor Gary Laderman
Buy new: $50.00 / Used from: $12.00 The title says it all
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 | Epitaphs To Remember by Janet Greene
Buy new: $10.36 / Used from: $1.12 Traces the development of epitaphs over the centuries
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| The last word: The lure and lore of early New England graveyards by Melvin Gilbert Williams
Buy used from: $4.90 More on epitaphs and effigies
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 | A Graveyard Preservation Primer (American Association for State and Local History Book Series) by Lynette Strangstad
Buy new: $29.95 / Used from: $33.66 Preservation is tricky - this tells how to do it properly
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| By Their Markers Ye Shall Know Them: A Chronicle of the History & Restorations of Hartford's Ancient Burying Ground by William Hosley
Buy used from: $33.45 A properly done restoration project in Hartford, CT
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| Early New England gravestone rubbings (Pictorial archive series) by Edmund Vincent Gillon
Buy used from: $5.93 Never rub an old stone - here are some rubbings for your use.
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| Stranger stop and cast an eye;: A guide to gravestones & gravestone rubbing by G. Walker Jacobs
Buy used from: $2.99 Gravestones, carvers, motifs, epitaphs - just ignore the stone rubbing part!
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| Stories behind the stones by Gail M Potter
Buy used from: $1.49 Stories about some of those buried in the author's local cemetery
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 | The Chesapeake Book of the Dead: Tombstones, Epitaphs, Histories, Reflections, and Oddments of the Region by Helen Chappell
Buy new: $32.00 / Used from: $6.83 Wander through Chesapeake area cemeteries with the author.
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