RARE comprehensive monograph on effigies and its functions in sepulchral and punishment rites from Middle Ages to 19th-century by Wolfgang Brückner (b.1930), an eminent German folklorist and Germanist. Contains 18 b&w plates. 230x160mm. Brown cloth Hardcover with illustrated dust-jacket. Gilt front cover and spine. Jacket yellowing and slightly stained/dirty. Jacket edges and corners worn. Jacket spine edges tattered. Rear cover upper corner and spine edges bumped. This extremely rare pioneering study of a fascinating custom, of great interest to art historians, folklorists and interdisciplinary scholars, is in good condition.