John Camden Hotten

PREFACE.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I. GENERAL SURVEY OF SIGNBOARD HISTORY.

CHAPTER II. HISTORIC AND COMMEMORATIVE SIGNS.

CHAPTER III. HERALDIC AND EMBLEMATIC SIGNS.

CHAPTER IV. SIGNS OF ANIMALS AND MONSTERS.

CHAPTER V. BIRDS AND FOWLS

CHAPTER VI. FISHES AND INSECTS.

CHAPTER VII. FLOWERS, TREES, HERBS, ETC.

CHAPTER VIII. BIBLICAL AND RELIGIOUS SIGNS.

CHAPTER IX. SAINTS, MARTYRS, ETC.

CHAPTER X. DIGNITIES, TRADES, AND PROFESSIONS.

CHAPTER XI. THE HOUSE AND THE TABLE.

CHAPTER XII. DRESS; PLAIN AND ORNAMENTAL.

CHAPTER XIII. GEOGRAPHY AND TOPOGRAPHY.

CHAPTER XIV. HUMOROUS AND COMIC.

CHAPTER XV. PUNS AND REBUSES.

CHAPTER XVI. MISCELLANEOUS SIGNS.

APPENDIX. BONNELL THORNTON'S SIGNBOARD EXHIBITION.

INDEX.

Transcriber's Notes

Please see the Transcriber’s Notes at the end of this text.

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