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 87
ast century, at the door of shamdoctors and astrologers. Not unfrequently they combined theBalls (a favourite sign of the quacks) with Lillys head, as theBlack Ball and Lillyhead, the sign of Thomas Saffold, anapproved and licensed physician and student in astrology : hehath practised astronomy for… … SPINNING SOW.(France, 1520.)
Signs and signboards
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