The danger of premature interment, : proved from many remarkable instances of people who have recovered after being laid out for dead, and of others entombed alive, for want of being properly examined prior to interment. Also a description of the manner the ancient Egyptians, and other nations, preserved and venerated their dead, and a curious account of their sepulchral ever burning lamps and mausoleums. ... Selected from historical records. / By Joseph Taylor.

  • Taylor, Joseph, 1761 or 1762-1844
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1816
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London : Printed for W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, Stationers Court, Ludgate-Street, 1816.

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153 pages, 11 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : frontispiece (engraved) ; 12mo (18 cm)

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Includes index.
Copy 1 Note: Bound in 20th century calf, marbled endpapers. Preliminary blank watermarked 1819.

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