{"id":14429,"date":"2013-10-21T03:08:12","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T02:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=14429"},"modified":"2013-10-21T03:08:12","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T02:08:12","slug":"ye-sundial-booke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/10\/21\/ye-sundial-booke\/","title":{"rendered":"Ye Sundial Booke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sundial22.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/sundial22.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I almost posted this in place of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/10\/19\/the-book-of-old-sundials\/\"><em>The Book of Old Sundials<\/em><\/a> but to have done so would have made the former volume redundant. This is the same idea\u2014pen drawings of British sundials with accompanying pages of sundial mottos\u2014but a much more comprehensive treatment. The antiquated title is an affectation by its author, T. Geoffrey W. Henslow, the book having been published in 1914. What&#8217;s most remarkable about this study is the 370 drawings by Dorothy Hartley (1893\u20131985), a job of illustration that must have involved considerable labour even if she was working from photographs. Looking for details of Ms Hartley&#8217;s career it&#8217;s possible she researched the sites herself. In addition to being an illustrator and art teacher she was also a noted social historian and rural archivist, and author of a celebrated book of culinary history, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2012\/dec\/14\/bee-wilson-rereading-food-england-hartley\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Food in England<\/em><\/a> (1954), which is still in print today.<\/p>\n<p>These page selections do little more than scratch the surface of this extraordinary book. Browse the rest of it <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/yesundialbooke00hensuoft#page\/n5\/mode\/2up\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> or download it <a href=\"https:\/\/ia700308.us.archive.org\/17\/items\/yesundialbooke00hensuoft\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. For more about Dorothy Hartley and her historical research there&#8217;s an hour-long BBC documentary, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/video\/xuwr73_food-in-england-the-lost-world-of-dorothy-hartley_shortfilms\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Food in England: The Lost World of Dorothy Hartley<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sundial23.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/sundial23.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sundial24.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/sundial24.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sundial25.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/sundial25.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sundial26.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/sundial26.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sundial27.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/sundial27.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sundial28.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/sundial28.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sundial29.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/sundial29.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sundial30.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/sundial30.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sundial31.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/sundial31.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/10\/19\/the-book-of-old-sundials\/\">The Book of Old Sundials<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I almost posted this in place of The Book of Old Sundials but to have done so would have made the former volume redundant. This is the same idea\u2014pen drawings of British sundials with accompanying pages of sundial mottos\u2014but a much more comprehensive treatment. The antiquated title is an affectation by its author, T. Geoffrey &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/10\/21\/ye-sundial-booke\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ye Sundial Booke&#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":[8,2,42,48],"tags":[5309,5294,5308],"class_list":["post-14429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-art","category-books","category-illustrators","tag-dorothy-hartley","tag-sundials","tag-t-geoffrey-w-henslow"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-3KJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14429","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=14429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}