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TOMBSTONE LETTERING ON SLATE, Frederick Burgess. A 20 page reprint of an article by an English expert, from the pages of The Monumental Journal.

Shows the influence of early calligraphy on old British stones, illustrated with photos and rubbings.

1991 ISBN 0-930194-20-9, $6.50 Download Order Form

LETTERS SLATE CUT, (2nd ed.) David Kindersley. A master living carver shows you exactly how he works. $8.95 Download Order Form

LASTING LETTERS, McKitterick & Cardoza. A superb history of the carving of a new stone for the abbots of St. Albans, England (1539) $15.95 Download Order Form

UNDERSTANDING COLONIAL HANDWRITING, Harriet Stryker-Rodda. Gravestone carvers were influenced by their penmanship lessons. Knowing how to read these legends is vital for gravestpme researchers. Rodda shows how early writing styles were derived.

Reprint 1998, Paper, $5.00 Download Order Form

EPITAPHS, A Dictionary of Grave Epigrams & Memorial Eloquence, Nigel Ress. "An epitaph . . . is an inscription upon a memorial that usually says something about the person beneath or so remembered. ..not another collection of humorous recycled sayings . . . of dubious ancestry."

1993 276 pp., Paper, $11.95 Download Order Form

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