Victorian Mourning Book | Memorial for Sunday School BoysVictorian consolation book (undated, c. 1850s) dedicated to numerous boys from the same Sunday school, all of whom died very young. Marbled boards and cloth spine. Condition is good with shelf wear, foxing, and wear to the title label on the spine.

Measures about 7” tall without chips or cracks

Black and white engravings throughout

It’s a scene from The Law and the Lady by Willie Collins

The box does have quite a bit of wear

Women made them at home then took the finished hair work to a jeweler to put the hardware on

and enjoyed

000 copies

advertised as “blackberries and cream” at the time

measuring about 14” long

Featured in an 1875 issue of Harper’s Weekly that addressed high mortality rates among children due to poverty and disease

so many crazed artists and creatives took to it during the 19th century and it was ultimately these things eccentric

Condition is fair: There is a water stain that mostly just affects the back