Front matter
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Please see the Transcriber’s Notes at the end of this text.
Drawn by Experience
Engraved by Sorrow
a Man Loaded with Mischief, or Matrimony. A Monkey, a Magpie, and Wife; Is the true Emblem of Strife.
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THE HISTORY OF SIGNBOARDS From the Earliest Times to the Present Day
BY JACOB LARWOOD AND JOHN CAMDEN HOTTEN
“He would name you all the signs as he went along”
BEN JONSON’S BARTHOLOMEW FAIR
“Oppida dum peragras peragranda poemata spectes”
DRUNKEN BARNABY’S TRAVELS
Cock and Bottle
TWELFTH IMPRESSION WITH ONE HUNDRED ILLUSTRATIONS BY J. LARWOOD
LONDON CHATTO & WINDUS 1908
To Thomas Wright, Esq., M.A., F.S.A., the Accomplished Interpreter of English Popular Antiquities, this Little Volume is Dedicated by THE AUTHORS.