Sundials and roses of yesterday : garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems / Alice Morse Earle.
"The American social historian and antiquarian Alice Morse Earle (1851-1911) published this lavishly illustrated book, among the last of her works, in 1902. By this time she had developed a distinctive style of historical writing which made innovative use of material evidence in its focus on th...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- The charm and sentiment of sun-dials
- Noon-marks, spot-dials, window-dials
- Classification of sun-dials
- The construction of sun-dials
- Ingeniose 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 rosee
- 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.