Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems (1902)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York; London : Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 218
truction andshape than to-day. None of the parts of a dialwere turned out in vast numbers, as to-day of simi-lar instruments ; hence the variety, and hence thedelight in collection. A very odd and lovely portable dial was madeat Nuremberg and perhaps elsewhere, what is called agoblet- or… … months ago in purchasing a metal dial dated 1624,which was described to me in so extraordinarily andminutely accurate a mannerthat I felt sure I had se-cured a chalice-dial; butupon opening the packagea horizontal dial was seenin which the lines and nu-merals had been cut upona pewter plate or…
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