Beyond the Veil
the victorian obsession with death and mourning
$46.21
- Hardcover
208 pages
- Release Date
15 September 2025
Summary
Beyond the Veil: A Victorian Obsession with Death
The visual history of how we deal with death – the grief and mourning, the funerals, symbols, and ceremonies – is fascinatingly rich. Focusing on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and traveling from Victorian England across to the US, Beyond the Veil is a visual tour through this curious world, charting the often peculiar and at times macabre ways of how the living memorialize the dead.
Humans have always…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781836004226 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1836004222 |
| Author: | Paul Gambino |
| Publisher: | Quarto Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Frances Lincoln |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 15 September 2025 |
| Weight: | 750g |
| Dimensions: | 224mm x 171mm |
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About The Author
Paul Gambino
Paul Gambino is a US-based collector of the bizarre with over 20 years of experience. His extensive collection includes Victorian memorial photographs, antique funeria, mug shots, and vintage religious items, including a life-sized St. Sebastian and Virgin Mary salvaged from a 19th-century church in Pennsylvania.
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