The History of Signboards, from the Earliest times to the Present Day
Drawn by Experience
Engraved by Sorrow
a Man Loaded with Mischief, or Matrimony. A Monkey, a Magpie, and Wife; Is the true Emblem of Strife.
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
Cock and Bottle
TWELFTH IMPRESSION WITH ONE HUNDRED ILLUSTRATIONS BY J. LARWOOD