Designs for monuments and mural tablets
Subtitle: adapted to rural cemeteries, church yards, churches and chapels : with preliminary essay on the laying out, planting and managing of cemeteries and on the improvement of church yards. On the basis of Londons work
By: by J. Jay Smith, one of the founders of Laurel Hill Cemetery. Philadelphia
Contributors: Worley, George, engraver; Mumford, Thomas Howland, 1816- engraver; John Struthers and Co
Publisher: Bartlett & Welford
Published: 1846
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 30
Subjects: Sepulchral monuments; Cemeteries
Notes: On cover: No. 1.

Two extra unnumbered leaves divide sections.

Ill. t.p.; vignettes throughout.

T.p. vignette signed: G. Worley; wood engraving on p. 7 signed: Mumford (Thomas Howland?); plates published by Bartlett and Welford of New York, a few are signed: J. Struthers & Co., fec. [Philadelphia marble masons, according to A. M'Elroy's Philadelphia directory for 1846]. T.p. and plates are signed: Anastatic Press. Philadelphia.

T.p., plates, and ill. on front and back cover are reproduced by the obscure Victorian anastatic printing process, while vignettes are directly printed wood engravings.

Issued in printed paper binding with red gold-ruled leather spine; t.p. reproduced on cover with four tomb designs added to corners, within multi-rule frame; another full page design reproduced on back cover, with reference at bottom: Anastatic transfer.