Author: EARLE, ALICE MORSE
Title: Sun-Dials and Roses of Yesterday. Garden delights which are here displayed in very Truth and are moreover regarded as emblems.
Description: New York & London, The MacMillan Company. 1902, First Edition. Cloth. Hardback, 140mm x 200mm tall (5.5" x 8" approx.). Pp xxiii, 461 plus a frontispiece and 42 further plates and with a green & black printed decorated title-page, decorated capitals and profuse illustrations in the text. Minor rubs to the head & tail of spine but otherwise very good in the original white & black decorated green cloth-covered boards/gilt titles & gilt top edges, and with a green-printed verse to the rear pastedown.. Very Good.

Keywords: Sun-Dial Sundial Dialling Gnomonics Roses Time-Keeping Measuring Astronomy Scientific Instrument History Garden Horticulture Horology Agriculture & Forestry


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