{"id":14422,"date":"2013-10-19T04:07:16","date_gmt":"2013-10-19T03:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=14422"},"modified":"2013-10-21T05:23:02","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T04:23:02","slug":"the-book-of-old-sundials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/10\/19\/the-book-of-old-sundials\/","title":{"rendered":"The Book of Old Sundials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sundial01.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/sundial01.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>The Book of Old Sundials &amp; Their Mottoes<\/em> (1922) is uncredited although it contains an introductory essay which may be the work of the Viscount Knutsford. The mottos section runs throughout the rest of the book, a collection of philosophical rhymes, moralising admonitions and the inevitable sombre <em>memento mori<\/em>. The illustrations by one Warrington Hogg are an equal attraction, showing the variety of sundial construction with examples from buildings in England that date back to the Roman occupation. Hogg&#8217;s drawings themselves date from the 1890s so its possible this is a reprint of an older volume. See the rest of the book <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/bookofoldsundial00unse\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> or download it <a href=\"https:\/\/ia700503.us.archive.org\/2\/items\/bookofoldsundial00unse\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sundial02.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/sundial02.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sundial03.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/sundial03.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sundial04.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/sundial04.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sundial05.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/sundial05.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sundial06.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/sundial06.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sundial07.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/sundial07.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sundial08.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/sundial08.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sundial09.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/sundial09.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sundial10.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/sundial10.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sundial11.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/sundial11.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sundial12.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/sundial12.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sundial13.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/sundial13.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sundial14.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/sundial14.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sundial15.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/sundial15.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sundial16.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/sundial16.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sundial17.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/sundial17.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sundial18.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/sundial18.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sundial19.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/sundial19.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sundial20.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/sundial20.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/12\/17\/the-jantar-mantar\/\">The Jantar Mantar<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Book of Old Sundials &amp; Their Mottoes (1922) is uncredited although it contains an introductory essay which may be the work of the Viscount Knutsford. The mottos section runs throughout the rest of the book, a collection of philosophical rhymes, moralising admonitions and the inevitable sombre memento mori. The illustrations by one Warrington Hogg &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/10\/19\/the-book-of-old-sundials\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Book of Old Sundials&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,42],"tags":[5294,5293],"class_list":["post-14422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-books","tag-sundials","tag-warrington-hogg"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-3KC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}