SPRIGGS, A. O. "Champion Textbook on Embalming" [The Champion Co, 1933]

SPRIGGS, A. O. Champion Textbook on Embalming

Springfield, Ohio: The Champion Company, 1933. First edition. 8" x 5.75", ix + 261pp. Illustrated throughout with photographic and diagrammatic instructional figures demonstrating arterial injection points, incision methods, and embalming procedures. Original navy cloth lettered in gilt with publisher’s Champion device to front board and spine. A clean, tight copy with sharp gilt, sound hinges, and only light shelfwear to extremities. Internally clean apart from minor pencil markings. Very Good+.

A substantial Depression-era professional embalming manual issued by one of the major American funeral supply companies, intended for working embalmers and mortuary students. Practical and highly visual, it documents contemporary embalming technique at a moment when the profession was becoming increasingly standardized and technical. Scarcer in such clean condition than its utilitarian purpose would suggest.