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Label: J.J. Keliher & Co
Manufacturer: J.J. Keliher & Co
Page Count: 2
Printing Date: 1914
Publishing house: J.J. Keliher & Co
Studio: J.J. Keliher & Co
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SUNDIAL BOOKE - D E D I C A T I O N .- To Wiltshire men I dedicate This book, regardless of estate, And only honour those who prove By deeds, not words, their counties love. The paltry honours men may give, That last the feeble years we live, Shall never influence thoughts sublime, Or mar a work that deals with time. Accept ye, then, my humble book, Remembering all the hours it took T o build. this work for it to reach Beyond the force of human speech. -- C O N T E N T S . -- Introduction - - - - - The History of the Sundial - - - Photograph No. 1 of Saxon Sundial, built into the South Porch of a Norman Church, Stanton S. Quintin, Chippenham, Wilts. - - - - - - Photograph No. 2 of the Saxon Sundial discovered by the Author at Stanton S. Quintin, Chippenham, Wilts. Famous Men and the Sundial, with Notes on Mottoes The Setting of the Sundial - - - Poem, My Desire - - - Sketch to Poem, The Sundial - - Poem, The Sundial - - - 9 9 Sketch to Poem. The Dials Motto - - Poem. The Dials Motto 9 - - Sketch to Poem, The Maid and the Sundial - - Poem, The Maid and the Sundial Sketch to Poem, The Moon and the Dial Poem. The Moon and the Dial - Verses and Sundial Sketches - - - Additional Mottoes and Verses for Sundials - - Names and Places where Sundials exist, with Index to Sketches and Verses - - - - - INTRODUCTION. N placing before the public this book on sundials and sundial verses I suppose that I must conform to the usual order of things anfd apologise for being on earth, Q but at the same time 1 am very grateful and, feeling so kindly disposed to FATHER TIME, I have ventured in verse to extol his praises, and, with the kindly help of my artist, I have boldly put before the public a work that has entailed considerable labour and expense. If, then, any critic --confident in his or her powers of being able to compile a work vastly superior in every detail to the one which I have supreme pleasure in now placing before the public-should like to enter the lists and vie with my humble efforts, I will gladly forgive all criticism, and congratulate myself on having been instrumental in securing for FATHER TIME a fresh devotee and I will offer up my humble prayers that he or she may prove to be a far more worthy servant than myself. But, apart from all levity, let me here simply testify to the onerous nature of my self-imposed task, and express the hope that my untutored efforts may in part, if not in whole, be appreciated by a few generous natures who, being themselves unable to devote time to the compilation of such a work, yet are grateful for this contribution no matter how faulty to what has ever been a most pleasing and engrossing subj-ect. He would, indeed, be a mean man who, having received considerable assistance in any undertaking, failed to acknowledge such on the very first opportunity and I have the greatest pleasure in here testifying to the untiring efforts of my artist, Miss D. Hartley, who has contributed so largely to my work indeed, I am sure that, without her talent, I should receive but poor commendation from the general public. All the sundials that figure in this work are dials that actually exist, and although the settings are new, yet it is to be hoped that this will in no wise detract from the value of the book. So many ancient dials are to-day continually changing hands and being placed in new surroundings, that although cognisant of the fact that it would be far more interesting to illustrate my work with sketches showing the - dial in its original position, yet in the majority of cases I have proved this to be impossible. I have, therefore, decided, whilst representing faithfully the actual dials, to ad t kfuite liew lines, and to illustrate my work with a series f kqt es in...
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