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The Sunny Side of Genealogy. A Humorous Collection of Anecdotes, Poems, Wills, Epitaphs, and Other Miscellany from Genealogy by Fonda D. Baselt 9780806312057
RRP: £9.88Booksplease Price: £9.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806312057Author Fonda D. BaseltFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint -
Poetical Pieces by the Late Mr. Thomas Bradford. to Which Are Added a Sonnet on His Death, and His Epitaph, Written by William Hayley, Esq. by Thomas Bradford 9781241149949
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241149949Author Thomas BradfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint -
Ancient Jewish Epitaphs: An Introductory Survey of a Millennium of Jewish Funerary, Epigraphy (300BCE-700CE) by Pieter W. van der Horst 9789024233076
Booksplease Price: £29.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789024233076Author P.W. van der HorstFormat PaperbackPage Count 179Imprin -
The Funeral Sermons, Orations, Epitaphs, and Other Pieces on the Death of the Right REV. Patrick Forbes, Bishop of Aberdeen by Charles Farquhar Shand 9781345509373
Booksplease Price: £34.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781345509373Author Charles Farquhar ShandFormat HardbackPage Count 616 -
Burial Hill, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Its Monuments and Gravestones Numbered and Briefly Described, and the Inscriptions and Epitaphs Thereon Carefully Copied by Benjamin Drew 9780806345048
RRP: £24.88Booksplease Price: £23.44Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Mystery of Death and the Spark of the Self: East Slavic Lyrics, 1669–1812 by Erica Camisa Morale 9781501788468
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £24.76The Mystery of Death and the Spark of the Self is the first monograph on the emergence of the lyric "I" in East Slavic and Russian poetry of early modernity. Considering poems by male and female... -
Saxa loquuntur: Roman Epitaphs from North-Western Croatia: Rimski epitafi iz sjeverozapadne Hrvatske by Branka Migotti 9781784915667
Booksplease Price: £29.56This book examines Roman funerary material from three Roman cities of the south-western regions of the Roman province of Pannonia (modern-day north-western Croatia): Andautonia (Scitarjevo near... -
Annus Horribilis: Latin for Everyday Life by Mark Walker 9780752458984
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31Everyone remembers the Queen's 'Annus Horribilis', but what do 'quid pro quo' and 'habeas corpus' mean? Why do plants have Latin names? Why do families, towns, countries and even football teams have... -
Tributes to the Dead: Consisting of More Than Two Hundred Epitaphs, Many of Them Original Compositions, Etc. by Luke Booker 9781241040611
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241040611Author Luke BookerFormat PaperbackImprint -
Curious Epitaphs: Collected from the Graveyards of Great Britain and Ireland: with Biographical, Genealogical, and Historical Notes by William Andrews Frhs 9781633915152
RRP: £9.75Booksplease Price: £8.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633915152Author William Andrews FrhsFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Im -
Retaliation: A Poem. by Doctor Goldsmith. Including Epitaphs on Some of the Most Distinguished Wits of This Metropolis. the Third Edition, Corrected. with Explanatory Notes, and Observations by Oliver Goldsmith 9781140822783
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781140822783Author Oliver GoldsmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 26Imprint -
Retaliation: A Poem. by Doctor Goldsmith. Including Epitaphs on the Most Distinguished Wits of This Metropolis. a New Edition. with Explanatory Notes, Observations, &C. by Oliver Goldsmith 9781140944683
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781140944683Author Oliver GoldsmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint -
Voices from the Tombs; Or, Epitaphs, Original and Selected: With a Large Selection of Appropriate Texts of Scripture: and an Historical and Moral Essay on Sepulchral Customs, and Monumental Inscriptions by Benjamin Richings 9780371650394
Booksplease Price: £17.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780371650394Author Benjamin RichingsFormat PaperbackPage Count 365Imprint -
![The Churchyard Memorials of Crail. Containing a Full Description of the Epitaphs Anterior to 1800: Together with Some Account of the Other Antiquities of the Burgh. [With Illustrations.] by Erskine Beveridge 9781241607098](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/8546404/9581871/9781241607098__74581.1749981469.jpg?c=1 "The Churchyard Memorials of Crail. Containing a Full Description of the Epitaphs Anterior to 1800: Together with Some Account of the Other Antiquities of the Burgh. [With Illustrations.] by Erskine Beveridge 9781241607098")
The Churchyard Memorials of Crail. Containing a Full Description of the Epitaphs Anterior to 1800: Together with Some Account of the Other Antiquities of the Burgh. [With Illustrations.] by Erskine Beveridge 9781241607098
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £20.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241607098Author Erskine BeveridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint -
Grave Matters: A Curious Collection of 500 Actual Epitaphs, from Which We Learn of Grieving Spouses, Fatal Gluttony, Vengeful Relations, and All Manner of Parting Commentary by E R Shushan 9780345364708
RRP: £11.85Booksplease Price: £9.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345364708Author E.R. ShushanFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint < -
Medieval Welsh Literature and its European Contexts: Essays in Honour of Professor Helen Fulton by Victoria Flood 9781843847212
Booksplease Price: £91.08Situates Celtic languages and literatures in relation to European movements, in the tradition of Helen Fulton's groundbreaking research. Professor Helen Fulton's influential scholarship has... -
The Corpse as Text - Disinterment and Antiquarian Enquiry, 1700-1900 by Thea Tomaini
Booksplease Price: £91.38Between 1700 and 1900, the subject of disinterment (exhumation) attracted the attention of antiquaries, who constructed a comprehensive memory of the past by 'reading' corpses as documents... -
Chinese Historical Microdemography by Stevan Harrell 9780520083066
RRP: £53.00Booksplease Price: £46.34Using local studies to answer global questions, this compilation challenges traditional notions concerning historical Chinese population trends. Genealogies, epitaphs, and household registers are... -
Economies of Praise: Value, Labor, and Form in Seventeenth-Century English Poetry by Ryan Netzley 9780810146709
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £42.60Reevaluates early modern poems of praise as, paradoxically, challenging an artistic economy that values exchange and productivity Early modern poems of praise typically insist that they do not have a... -
Poulenc: The Life in the Songs by Graham Johnson 9781631495236
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £32.92Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) is widely acknowledged as one of the twentieth century's most significant masters of vocal music-solo, choral and operatic-quite apart from his achievements in... -
Studies in Silk in Byzantium by Anna Muthesius 9781899828241
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £119.98This book brings together seventeen important new papers published by Anna Muthesius since 1995. Many of the articles, plates and specially prepared figures are available only in this book. The... -
Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas: A Novel by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.11"I passed away at two o'clock in the afternoon on a Friday in August in 1869, in my beautiful mansion in the Catumbi district of the city." So begins Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas-at the end of... -
Secondhand Worms by Herbert Jaxon 9781803819709
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.59A collection of light-hearted and comic poems, written by Herbert Jaxon, originally for his own amusement and that of his friends, but later for that of his children and grandchildren.About the... -
Reading Robert Burns: Texts, Contexts, Transformations Carol McGuirk 9780367876029
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Robert Burns is Scotland's greatest cultural icon. Yet, despite his continued popularity, critical work has been compromised by the myths that have built up around him. McGuirk focuses on Burns's... -
Though Silent They Speak: Arkansas Gravestones and Graveyards Abby Burnett 9781496860453
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.47Though Silent They Speak: Arkansas Gravestones and Graveyards is a fascinating and informative guidebook to the most unusual graves and graveyards in Arkansas. Within the pages, readers explore showy... -
The Light of Day by Eric Ambler
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.47'He took the spy thriller out of the gentility of the drawing room and into the back streets of Istanbul, where it all really happened' Frederick ForsythSmall-time hustler Arthur Abdel Simpson ekes... -
The Latin Poetry of English Poets by J. W. Binns
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.59Thomas Campion, Milton, Crashaw, Herbert, Bourne, Walter Savage Landor - all these poets, between them spanning the period from the Elizabethan to the Victorian age, wrote a substantial body of Latin... -
Arthurian Legend in the Seventeenth Century by Roberta Florence Brinkley
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63The study of the Arthurian legend in the 1600s has revealed almost no romance; the stories are more about the truth of Arthur's existence and his exploits, with influence due to political bearing of... -
Fragments: Medieval Makers, Modern Responses Catherine A. Fernandez 9780271100029
Booksplease Price: £97.67Fragments are central to the work of medievalists. Whether caused by destruction, decay, or the loss of context, fragmentation shapes how scholars reconstruct and interpret the Middle Ages. In the... -
Manuscript Miscellanies in Early Modern England Joshua Eckhardt 9780367879907
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Perhaps more than any other kind of book, manuscript miscellanies require a complex and 'material' reading strategy. This collection of essays engages the renewed and expanding interest in early... -
Four Plays: A Sense of Detachment,The End of Me Old Cigar,Jill and Jack,A Place Calling Itself Rome by John Osborne
Booksplease Price: £12.27Includes the plays A Sense of Detachment, The End of Me Old Cigar, Jill and Jack and A Place Calling Itself Rome Osborne here delivers his trademark eloquence, rage and devastating wit. A Sense of... -
Though Silent They Speak: Arkansas Gravestones and Graveyards Abby Burnett 9781496860446
RRP: £82.00Booksplease Price: £63.53Though Silent They Speak: Arkansas Gravestones and Graveyards is a fascinating and informative guidebook to the most unusual graves and graveyards in Arkansas. Within the pages, readers explore showy... -
Passage of Arms by Eric Ambler 9780241606186
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.47'The man who lit the way for us all' Len DeightonAn Indian clerk, Girija Krishnan, sees the opportunity of his lifetime when he stumbles on an abandoned cache of arms hidden in the Malayan jungle. If... -
Rethinking Gaspara Stampa in the Canon of Renaissance Poetry Unn Falkeid 9781032926100
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83Despite the fact that Gaspara Stampa (1523?-1554) has been recognized as one of the greatest and most creative poets and musicians of the Italian Renaissance, scholarship on her work has been... -
Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas: A Novel by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis 9781631495328
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £17.49"I passed away at two o'clock in the afternoon on a Friday in August in 1869, in my beautiful mansion in the Catumbi district of the city." So begins Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas-at the end of... -
The Challenge of Periodization: Old Paradigms and New Perspectives Lawrence Besserman 9781138970076
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89In these essays some of today's leading literary scholars and cultural critics re-examine major writers, genres, and themes in relation to their traditional period affiliations. The essays cover a... -
A Kind of Anger by Eric Ambler
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.47'A thriller of the highest quality - ironic, witty, literate, ingenious, understated and unflaggingly suspenseful' The New York Times Book ReviewThe last time anyone saw Lucia Bernardi, she was... -
Mediterranean Timescapes: Chronological Age and Cultural Practice in the Roman Empire Ray Laurence 9781032478869
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This book, built around the study of the representation of age and identity in 23,000 Latin funerary epitaphs from the Western Mediterranean in the Roman era, sets out how the use of age in... -
John Milton: The Critical Heritage Volume 1 1628-1731 John T. Shawcross 9780415568845
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher... -
From Constantine to Julian: Pagan and Byzantine Views: A Source History Samuel Lieu 9780415093361
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69From Constantine to Julian provides students with important source material, covering an age of major transition in Europe; an age which saw the establishment of Rome as a Christian Empire and a...