Sun Dials and Roses of Yesterday. Garden Delights Which Are Here Displayed In Very Truth And Are Moreover Regarded As Emblems. by Alice Morse Earle - 1902

Detroit: Singing Tree Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1969. First thus.. Hardcover. A facsimile reprint of an edition published in 1902, original pinkish coloured cloth boards with title and decorative border printed to front cover and spine in dark green, illustrated, a very good copy; 210 x 140mm; xxiii, 459 pages .

HARDBACK IN THE ORIGINAL DECORATED CLOTH BINDING, NUMEROUS FULL PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS WITH SEVERAL PHOTOGRAPHIC FULL PAGE PLATES, NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS AMONG TEXT. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 9 x 6 INCHES WITH 23 + 461 PAGES. WHITE ROSES TO SPINE A LITTLE RUBBED, CORNERS BUMPED, CRACK TO REAR INNER HINGE WITH BOARD WELL ATTACHED, OCCASIONAL PAGE UNCUT. OVERALL A VERY GOOD PLUS COPY & CLEAN INTERNALLY. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS. ALL BOOKS POSTED IN STURDY BOOK BOX.

New York: Macmillan & Co, 1902. Thick, stout octavo, 461 pages. FIRST EDITION, trade issue, of this thorough survey of sundials and roses (there was also simultaneously issued limited printing of 100). Thoroughly illustrated with black and white photographs of dials in various garden settings. The author was an amateur historian who wrote frequently on the Puritans and colonial America. Earle was a passenger on a ship headed for Egypt which was shipwrecked on Nantucket. She fell ill as a result of the ordeal, never recovering her health and dying two years later. A near fine copy, in publisher's gold, white and green decorated cloth.

Macmillan & Co., 1902. 1st. Ed.. pp.xxiii, 461 with b/w. photos. and illus. throughout. 8vo. Hardback. TEG. Contents fine. Some sections uncut. Original decorated boards with gilt lettering exceptional and in fine condition. A very pleasing copy. This work begins with a detailed treatise on all aspects of sun-dials, from classification, through construction, to the setting of sun-dials; followed by what are essentially a series of essays, on Roses and the theme of the Rose as an emblem, including a chapter on the Rosicrucians, a mysterious sect that arose in Europe in the 17th Century.