The history of signboards : from the earliest times to the present day (1870)
Larwood, Jacob, 1827-1918, Hotten, John Camden, 1832-1873, author · London : J. C. Hotten · leaf 189
oison, and that for this reason it is laid on the tables of the great, and made intoknife-handles, which, when placed on the tables, show the presence of poison. But thisis not sufficiently proved.—Albertus Magnus, De Animalibus, lib. xxv. f Bib. Ilarl. 5953, vol. i., p. 403. % Relation of the… … TWO SPIES.(Bankss Collection, 1730.)
Signs and signboards
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