Architecture and the After-Life

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991. Hardcover. Good (Boards are lightly edgeworn/scuffed/smudged; textblock is lightly scuffed/foxed; interior is very clean; binding is solid.). Blue buckram with gilt lettering on the spine; xi, 418 pp.; richly illustrated. Architectural historian Colvin (emeritus fellow, St. John's College, Oxford U.) provides a history of funerary architecture in western Europe from the earliest megalithic tombs of prehistory to the establishment of public cemeteries in the 19th century, tracing the ways in which these structures represent changing ideas about the after-life as well as changes in architectural style. The book, beautifully produced on heavy stock, includes seven color and 268 b & w illustrations, 90 specially drawn plans and elevations, and an extensive bibliography. -- WorldCat.