SUN DIALS AND ROSES OF YESTERDAY: Garden
Delights Which are Here Displayed in Every Truth and Are Moreover Regarded as
Emblems — By Alice Morse Earle — 1st Edition/1st Printing, 1902 — Concerning Roses and Garlands, The Rosicrucians, Mythology, Spiritual Construction of... Saint and Prophets
Publisher: The MacMillan Company, London (1902)
In very well preserved condition. The boards and binding are solid and tight with minimal shelfwear. The pages are crisp and clean, save for damp stain on the last blank page. Beautiful green Art Nouveau decorated floral boards with gilt; 461 pages. Heavily illustrated with photographs and illustrations. "
Written by historian
and author Alice Morse Earle (1851-1911), this wonderfully eclectic treatise on
the sundial is a reminder of how much possibility lays within the wilderness of
the blank page through a spiritual and natural lens. Each chapter begins with inhabited initials
and each chapter’s contents encourage readers to consider verse from poets such
as Rossetti and Dickinson, photographs of sundials and horologists, and
sketches and diagrams and how ancient religious orders incorporated their use..." [Public Domain Review] Contents include: The charm and sentiment of
sun-dials; Noon-marks, spot-dials, window-dials; Classification of
sun-dials; The construction of sun-dials; Ingenious diallers; Portable
dials; The sun-dial as an emblem; Symbolic designs for sun-dials; Pedestals and gnomons; The setting of sun-dials; Sun-dial mottoes; The
sun-dial as a memorial; Pliny saieth: concerning roses and garlands; Rosa
solis, rose plate, and rose e; The emblem of the rose in English history; Our grandmothers' roses; The Rosicrucians; The sun-dial of Ahaz; Rural
saints and prophets; A story of four dials, and more.
