Memorial Designs: The Guy Line (cover title) with related ephemera

Quarto, 11.5 x 9 inches, [20]pp. No date. Good to Very Good with soil to wraps, wear to yapp edges: 1-inch closed tear to the front foredge and bottom spine; small chips at the foredge and bottom corner of rear wrap. Acid discoloration heaviest to outer pages with subtler toning throughout. Prominent markings on the cover Property of Parkville Granite (etc.), but contents unmarked.

The company's first catalog, offering 286 total memorial designs and serving as a formidable survey of what was available and popular during the period. The designs photographed in situ, a few with the decedent's dates visible--mostly 1927 and the latest being 1929, suggesting a 1929-1930 publication date. Offered with "H&M Lettering System" chart from Holes & McClellan of New Bedford, Ohio ca, 1937 and undated "Finished Marker List" [4]p illustrated price list from Cook, Watkins & Patch in Boston, MA.