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Author : Joan Evans
Publisher : David Messum
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Mottoes
ISBN : 1851497188
An important study of English Posies and Posy Rings, first published in 1931. It examines their origins and contains an extensive list of inscriptions.
Author : Diana Scarisbrick
Publisher : Ad Ilissum
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1912168219
The distinguished private collection, known as the Griffin Collection, comprises in its entirety examples of every category of ring - signet, devotional, memorial, decorative - dating from antiquity to modern times. This catalogue, focusing on about 150 rings in the collection, is concerned with perhaps the most personal rings of all, those associated with love and marriage. Some can be recognised by the figure of Cupid armed with his quiver of golden arrows, others by the symbols of heart and clasped hands. However, the majority are gold bands, sometimes plain and occasionally decorated, that are inscribed with mottoes in English expressing the admiration, affection, and pledges of fidelity which bind humankind together. Known as posies or little poems because they often rhyme, these mottoes were current on rings from the late Middle Ages until the middle of the 19 th century. Through these rings, Ms. Scarisbrick engagingly tells the long story of the relations between the sexes from the fifteenth century, when the cult of courtly love was superseded by an idealization of monogamous marriage, to an end in the twentieth century as a result of a different moral outlook. Scholars would agree that the Griffin Collection of posy rings makes an important contribution to English social history and connects with the national literature from Chaucer to Byron. Small though they are in scale, their significance was appreciated by Victorian collectors, and they are well represented in the leading museums, notably the Victoria and Albert Museum, the British Museum, and the Museum of London, as well as the Ashmolean and Fitzwilliam museums in Oxford and Cambridge. Yet none of these institutions have ever published fully illustrated catalogues of their posy rings, nor has there been an up-to-date study since the seminal monograph by Joan Evans entitled English Posies and Posy rings (1931). In this respect, the catalogue of the Griffin Collection, which illustrates the rings and sets them in context, using wide-ranging literary and historical sources, breaks new ground. It also contains posy rings with inscriptions hitherto unrecorded and others with identified maker's marks.
Author : Joan Evans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1124159147
Author : Paul Jordan-Smith
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Melancholy
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Joan Evans
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0486261220
Superb sourcebook of rare ornamentation includes meticulously detailed narrative and 400 illustrations depicting priceless brooches, necklaces, clasps, gold padlock, reliquary pendants, much more.
Author : Joan Evans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Mottoes
ISBN : UOM:39015036076225
Author : Charles Edwards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Rings
ISBN : UOM:39015062475804
Author : Geraldine Adamich Laufer
Publisher : Workman Publishing Company
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2000-03-01
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 0761120661
Tussie-Mussies reacquaints readers with the complex and delightful language of flowers, and the art of making them speak through Victorian "talking bouquets" called tussie-mussies. Now Tussie-Mussies is available in a stunning paperback edition. A celebration of craft, lore, and language, Tussie-Mussies is a full-color guide to tussie-mussies, how to make them, and how the symbolic meanings of flowers and herbs have developed over the centuries. Roses that are red mean only one thing-Love-while a yellow rose may range from Friendship to Jealousy. Daisies are for Innocence, ivy for Fidelity, rosemary for Remembrance. Then comes the delightful task of arranging individual flowers and herbs together to compose a specific message to a friend or loved one. A floral poet, Geraldine Laufer shows how to make 60 bouquets-tussie-mussies to declare Ardent Love, say Happy Birthday, celebrate a Newborn, mark an Anniversary, honor a Mentor, admit an Infatuation, or even announce a Bitter Rivalry. Indeed, any sentiment can be crafted with a few blooms, woolen yarn, and scissors.
Author : William Jones
Publisher : Sagwan Press
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1376470659
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : John Bartlett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Quotations
ISBN : HARVARD:32044021235585
Author : Louisa May Alcott
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781504046275
From the author of Little Women: An American classic of young best friends in a rustic New England town. In post–Civil War New England, thirteen-year-old Jack Minot and Janey Pecq are inseparable best friends who live next door to each other in the town of Harmony Village. The pair does everything together—so much so that Janey is nicknamed “Jill” to fit the old children’s rhyme. One winter day, the friends share a sled down a treacherous hill and both end up injured and bedridden. Unable to go out and have fun, Jack, Jill, and their circle of friends begin to learn about more than the fun and games of their youth and discover what it means to grow up—exploring their town, their hearts, and the big, wide world beyond for the first time. This charming, wistful coming-of-age tale, written twelve years after Louisa May Alcott’s classic Little Women, examines the strange, tempestuous changes of adolescence with homespun heart and worldly wisdom.
Author : Louisa May Alcott
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368335557
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Author : Celia Thaxter
Publisher : Applewood Books
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-11
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781429014298
Celia Laighton Thaxter (1835-1894) was born in Portsmouth, NH. When she was four, her father became the lighthouse keeper on White Island in the Isles of Shoals. After resigning his post eight years later, he built a resort hotel on Appledore Island in Maine. The first of its kind on the New England coast, the hotel became a gathering place for writers and artists during the latter half of the 19th century. In her last year of life, Celia published this work, in which she lovingly describes her Appledore garden and its flowers. The flowers she grew in her cutting garden filled her own rooms and those of the hotel, and this work became famous for its descriptions of the old-fashioned flowers she grew there. Her island garden, a plot that measured 15 feet square, has been re-created and is open to visitors.
Author : Isaac Disraeli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1823
Category : English literature
ISBN : HARVARD:32044011683455
Author : Philip Sidney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Poetry
ISBN : OXFORD:N11276291
