Old Tavern Signs: An Excursion in the History of Hospitality

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Preface

Contents

Illustrations

CHAPTER I HOSPITALITY AND ITS TOKENS

CHAPTER II ANCIENT TAVERN SIGNS

CHAPTER III ECCLESIASTICAL HOSPITALITY AND ITS SIGNS

CHAPTER IV SECULAR HOSPITALITY: KNIGHTLY AND POPULAR SIGNS

CHAPTER V TRAVELING WITH SHAKESPEARE AND MONTAIGNE

CHAPTER VI TAVERN SIGNS IN ART ESPECIALLY IN PICTURES BY THE DUTCH MASTERS

CHAPTER VII ARTISTS AS SIGN-PAINTERS

CHAPTER VIII THE SIGN IN POETRY

CHAPTER IX POLITICAL SIGNS

CHAPTER X TRAVELING WITH GOETHE AND FREDERIC THE GREAT

CHAPTER XI THE ENGLISH SIGN AND ITS PECULIARITIES

CHAPTER XII THE ENEMIES OF THE SIGN AND ITS END

ENVOY AND THE MORAL?

Bibliography

Index

Title: Old Tavern Signs

An Excursion in the History of Hospitality

Author: Fritz August Gottfried Endell

Language: English

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Old Tavern Signs
by Fritz Endell

Old Tavern Signs

Old Dutch Signs
From a Painting by Gerrit and Job Berkheyden


Old Tavern Signs
An Excursion in the History
of Hospitality by
Fritz Endell

With Illustrations by the Author

Published by Houghton Mifflin Company
Printed at The Riverside Press Cambridge
Mdccccxvi

COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Published November 1916

THIS EDITION, PRINTED AT THE RIVERSIDE PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, CONSISTS OF FIVE HUNDRED AND FIFTY NUMBERED COPIES, OF WHICH FIVE HUNDRED ARE FOR SALE. THIS IS NUMBER 5


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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