The Mourner’s Friend | Sighs of Sympathy for Those Who SorrowOne of the loveliest & most desirable Victorian consolation titles, this collection of sympathetic verses features a gilt decoration of a mourner by a cemetery monument on the cover & an engraved frontispiece of Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia, one of the first & most significant rural cemeteries in America. Refer to photos for size & condition: Very good with some soiling to the covers & foxing.

It measures over 4” inches long

They are both fitted to hang

can’t quite tell from this angle if it’s Mary Magdalene or the Madonna

Turn of the century German

Victorian velvet frame containing a cabinet card of a marble statue or parian figure: It’s one of the Marys

perhaps for a pageant or play

I don’t often stock repros

He is the mascot of Tufts University in the Boston area

made famous when he was purchased by P

Measures about 27” tall and 11” wide

She would make a beautiful decorative ornament for either indoors or the garden

The interior is near fine