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Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. A fine new copy. This book is a major contribution to cemetery studies and consists of nine essays and appendices on the history and science and aesthetics of Hardwick Road Cemetery, Kings Lynn, Norfolk. Julian Litten has edited the work and contributed the essays on the history of the site and a glossary of funerary symbolism. He has also co-authored with Neville Posnett a study of the Commonwealth War Graves, and with other authors an essay on the notable burials. Colin Houseman studies the changing history of cemetery regulations and administration; John Lovett and others provide a survey of the trees on the site; Robin Stevenson analyses the mosses and plant life found there; and Rob Gordon and others cover the animal wildlife. Four appendices list rules and regulations in 1898, and undertakers, monumental masons and florists in Kings Lynn between 1849 and the present. Sir Jeremy Bagge has contributed a foreword and there is a generous section of colour plates, maps and diagrams.192 pp, contains 45 illustrations, most in colour.…