Curious Epitaphs, Collected from the Graveyards of Great Britain and Ireland.

by William Andrews

Last Homes of the Londoners, Chambers’s Journal, vol. 37, pp. 406-408.

Loaring, Henry James. Epitaphs: Quaint, Curious, and Elegant. With Remarks on the Obsequies of Various Nations. Compiled and Collated. London: William Tegg, n.d. [1872], 8vo, pp. vi-262.

M’Dowall, William. Memorials of St. Michael’s, the Old Parish Churchyard of Dumfries, 1876, 8vo, pp. ix-446. [With a frontispiece (St. Michael’s Church and Churchyard) and vignette title].

This is a most valuable local work.

Macgregor, Major Robert Guthrie, of the Bengal Retired List. Epitaphs from the Greek Anthology. Translated. London: Nissen and Parker, 1857, 8vo, 230 pp.

Macrae, D. Queer Epitaphs. Book of Blunders. London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 1872.

Maitland, Charles, M.D. The Church in the Catacombs: a Description of the Primitive Church of Rome, Illustrated by its Sepulchral Remains. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longman. 1846, 8vo, 312 pp., with illustrations.

Chapter III. of this work gives an interesting account of the Catacombs as a Christian Cemetery.

Memorials of the Dead, The Journal of the Society for Preserving the, in the Churches and Churchyards of Great Britain. Norwich: Samuel Sayer, 1883, 8vo, Nos. 1-4. (continued).