Very good, head of jacket slightly creased, neat ownership inscription to ffep. P.77 annotated innoffensively in pencil with dimensions, presumably for reproduction.
‘Everyone dies. For thousands of years, uncountable millions of corpses have been given funerals… No one really expects to die or to have to deal with death, but suddenly it happens, and then even the most rational of the living find that it has stirred up lost scraps of ritual in them.’ So begins Barbara Jones’ astonishing survey of the visual identity of death, concentrating on the Western world, but with ‘some other things (which) are here for comparison, or because I like them; liking is the hard base of everything, so I have drawn what I like’.
