The book of sun-dials; originally compiled by the late Mrs. Alfred Gatty; now enl. and re-edited by H. K. F. Eden and Eleanor Lloyd (1900)
Gatty, Alfred, Mrs., 1809-1873, Eden, Horatia K. F. Gatty, Lloyd, Eleanor, Evans, Lewis · London, G. Bell · leaf 281
golden scroll on a redground surrounds the dial face,in the centre of which is a fly, sobeautifully depicted that you canhardly believe it is not a real in-sect incorporated in the glass asin amber, for it is not perceptibleto the touch. There was nognomon when the sketch wastaken {circa 1863), for… … Leadbetters Mechanick Uiallini fly figured; it is supposed that the introduction of the fly is meant fora punning suggestion of the thought, May (the hours) fly. The dial at Marlborough attracted the attention of Messrs Brittonand Brayley, and is mentioned by them in the Beauties of England,vol. i.…
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