A BOOK OF OLD SUNDIALS & THEIR MOTTOES (Cover design by Jessie M. King) With Eight Illustrations in Colour by Alfred Rawlings and Thirty-six Drawings of some Famous Sundials by Warrington Hogg.
Published by T. N. Foulis in London, Edinburgh and Boston 1914
SKU: 51801
£295.00
FIRST EDITION Small 8vo. (approx. 19 x 13.5cm) hardback, with original paper-covered boards illustrated by Jessie M. King and hand-coloured, in original kraft paper dust jacket with colour plate pasted to front cover. t.e.g. 103pp. text plus 2pp. Publisher's advertisements at end. 36pp. line drawings and 8pp. tipped-in colour plates with captions and tissue-guards. A clean copy with no previous owners' markings or inscriptions. Slightest of edgewear to boards otherwise covers remarkably bright and clean! Dust jacket has very slight wear to top and base of spine. A VERY GOOD, BRIGHT COPY IN VERY GOOD DUST JACKET.