TEBB, William (1830-1917) and Edward Perry VOLLUM (d. 1902). Premature Burial and How It May be Prevented, London, 1896, original green cloth gilt. FIRST EDITION.

TEBB, William (1830-1917) and Edward Perry VOLLUM (d. 1902).  Premature Burial and How It May be Prevented. With Special Reference to Trance, Catalepsy, and Other Forms of Suspended Animation. London: Swan Sonnenschein and Co., 1896. 8vo (186 x 125mm). Half title, 24-page bibliography at the end (a few leaves torn without loss, some light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Original green cloth gilt (inner hinges weak, spine a little faded, extremities rubbed). Provenance: London Spiritualist Alliance (stamp on front free endpaper, crossed out); library shelf marks in white ink on spine. FIRST EDITION. RARE. In the year of the book's publication, William Tebb co-founded "The London Association for the Prevention of Premature Burial", a subject with which he seemed unnaturally fixated. In his will he stipulated that he should not be cremated until there was "unmistakable evidence of decomposition." He was also a social reformer, an abolitionist, a vegetarian and an anti-vaccinationist.