Sleeping Beauty: Memorial Photography in America

Altadena, CA: TwelveTrees Press, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine Dustjacket. First Edition. Hardcover. Text and notes at the rear of the volume include Death in America: A Chronology, an illuminating and sobering commentary on morbidity and mortality in the United States, including the colonial era. Burns is an ophthalmologist and is currently a Clinical Professor, Department of Medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. He is the creator and founder of The Burns Archive, the world's largest private collection of early medical photography and historic photographs. Illustrated with postmortem images take using Daguerreotype and Ambrotype, etc. Light shelf/edgewear, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Blue/black cloth boards with dj. 4to. 132pp. Illus. (color, b/w).