The book of sun-dials. Collected by Mrs. Alfred Gatty, author of “Parables from nature,” etc
Margaret Scott, Mrs Alfred Gatty (1809-1873)
Category
Books
Date
1890
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3222478
Summary
Bibliographic description
Third and enlarged edition, edited by H.K.F. Eden and Eleanor Lloyd, with an appendix on the construction of dials by W. Richardson.. viii, 578 p., frontis. plate, [1] leaf of plates (fold.) :. ill., plates, figrs ;. 8vo. (22cm). Provenance: Inscribed on flyleaf "To the sun dial / mark for her / among the flowers / [...], serene, and sunny [...] from Hedworth New Year, 1936". Binding: Twentieth-century half brown morocco on brown cloth. Five false raised bands, gilt tooled and lettered on spine. Mottled endpapers, gilt-top. Binder's stamp on verso flyleaf "Bound by Birdsall, Northampton & London".
Makers and roles
Margaret Scott, Mrs Alfred Gatty (1809-1873), author Eleanor Lloyd, editor Horatia K. F. Gatty Eden (b.1846), editor J. Wigham Richardson (d.1908), author