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198091831980. Softbound. VG slight scuffing to cover. Color wraps. 192 pp. 11 color 228 bw plates. This lavishly illustrated book by Martha Pike and Janice Gray Armstrong also contains 7 contributed essays: Where All Our Steps are Tending; The Problem of Time in 19th Century America; Symbolic Death; The Worldly Side of Paradise; Posthumous Mourning Portraiture; Chrysallis of Gloom mourning costumes; and Truly We Live in a Dying World. Also contains a foreword prologue epilogue and further reading. Most of the 244 items in the detailed catalogue are illustrated. Many say this is the best examination of this subject to date. paperback books