Download or read book In Search of Gravestones Old and Curious written by William Thomas Vincent and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1896 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ...] Gravestone plagiarism of this sort is very common, and there is to be found at West Ham, Essex, the same symbolical flight of the angel and child repeated as many as five times. The pilfering is not so weak and lamentable when the copyist appropriates merely the idea and works it out in a new fashion. The term new can hardly be attributed to the notion of a plucked flower as a type of death, but it occurs in so many varieties as almost to redeem its conventionality. ...]."