The history of signboards : from earliest times to the present day (1866)
Larwood, Jacob, 1827-1918, Hotten, John Camden, 1832-1873, author · London : J.C. Hotten · leaf 224
occurrence on the signboard.Pepys mentions a tavern of that name in Westminster, where,about the time of the Restoration, he used occasionally to showhis merry face. In 1768, the author of the Art of Living inLondon, recommended the Dog in Holywell Street for a quietgood dinner :— Where… … PLATE IX. GOOSE AND GRIDIRON.(St Pauls Churchyard, circa 1800.)
Signs and signboards
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