SUNDIALS PAST AND PRESENT.

MYRES, T. HARRISON.

£50.00

Publisher

Herald Printing Works.

Place

Preston

Date

1904

Synopsis

With illustrations. by t. harrison myres, f.r.i.b.a. architect preston, lancashire.

Item Description

8vo.9.5 x 7.25 inches. 13 + [1] + Sheets I-X. Text in double columns. In limp grey pictorial wrapper with black titles and publisher's device on rear inside wrapper. Spine worn and saome foxing of edges and margins; otherwise a very good copy. Loosely inserted: 5 press cuttings on sundials, printed advertisement for the Ansonia Sunwatch, folded plan of sundial and U.S. Department of Commerce, Circular of the Bureau of Standards, No. 402 Sundials !933, [2] + 6 pp. leaflet. Illustrated by 10 pages of engraved plates. Decorated by title page vignette Scarce pamphlet on sundials illustrating fifty eight examples from the UK, with additional inserted ephemera on the subject. By Thomas Harrison Myres of Preston (1842-1926), railway architect who designed many stations.

[Stock No. 30144]