Contents

I.[Hospitality and its Tokens]1
II.[Ancient Tavern Signs]23
III.[Ecclesiastical Hospitality and its Signs]47
IV.[Secular Hospitality: Knightly and Popular Signs]75
V.[Traveling with Shakespeare and Montaigne]101
VI.[Tavern Signs in Art—especially in Pictures by the Dutch Masters]127
VII.[Artists as Sign-Painters]141
VIII.[The Sign in Poetry]167
IX.[Political Signs]187
X.[Traveling with Goethe and Frederick the Great]217
XI.[The English Sign and its Peculiarities]235
XII.[The Enemies of the Sign and its End]259
[Envoy: And the Moral?]277
[Bibliography]291
[Index]297

Illustrations

[Old Dutch Signs]Frontispiece
From a painting by Gerrit and Job Berkheyden
[Zum Schiff, in Stuttgart]Title-Page
[Zum Ochsen, in Bietigheim, Württemberg]vi
[The Cock, in Fleet Street, London]2
[Adam and Eve]5
From an engraving by Hogarth
[Elefant and Castle, London]7
From an old woodcut
[Engel, in Murrhardt, Württemberg]11
[Zum Goldnen Anker in Besigheim, Württemberg]20
[Engel, in Winnenden, Württemberg]24
[Zum Rad, in Ravensburg, Württemberg]37
[Zum Wilden Mann, in Esslingen, Württemberg]38
[Roman Tavern Sign from Isernia, Italy]43
[Campana and Canone d’Oro, in Borgo San Dalmazzo, Italy]44
[Lamm, in Erlenbach, Württemberg]48
[Zum Ritter, in Degerloch, Württemberg]65
[The Good Woman, Old English Sign]67
[Hie zum Kindli, in the Collection of the Antiquarian Society in Zürich]71
[Adler, in Leonberg, Württemberg]76
[Zum Rössle, in Bozen, Austria]83
[Le Chat qui Dort, Musée Carnavalet, Paris]89
[Affenwagen, Old Swiss Sign]91
[Eagle and Child, Guildhall Museum, London]100
[Krone, in Leonberg, Württemberg]102
[The Falcon, in Chester, England]105
[The Old Blue Boar, in Lincoln, England]115
[Rose, in Murrhardt, Württemberg]121
[The Rowing Barge, in Wallingford, England]125
[The Trumpeter before a Tavern]128
From a painting by Du Jardin in Amsterdam
[A Baker’s Sign in Borgo San Dalmazzo, Italy]135
[The Half-Moon]136
From a painting by Teniers in London
[Zur Post, in Leonberg, Württemberg]137
[A Sign-Painter]142
From an engraving by Hogarth
[Enseigne du Rémouleur, Paris]153
[The Goat, in Kensington, London]163
[Zum Goldnen Hirsch, in Leonberg, Württemberg]168
[Trattoria del Gallo, in Tenda, Italy]184
[Zum Löwen, in Bietigheim, Württemberg]186
[The King of Württemberg, in Stuttgart]188
[Zur Krone, in Degerloch, Württemberg]191
[Butcher Sign in Oberstenfeld, Württemberg]197
[The Dog and Pot, in London]214
[Zur Post, in Bietigheim, Württemberg]218
[Aux Trois Lapins, Old Parisian Sign]227
[Lamb and Flag, in East Bath, England]236
[The Swan, in Wells, England]238
[Four Swans, in Waltham Cross, England]240
[Salutation Inn, in Mangotsfield, England]244
A club sign from the museum in Taunton, England
[The Pack-Horse, in Chippenham, England]246
[Zum Hirschen, in Winnenden, Württemberg]253
[Cavallo Bianco, in Borgo San Dalmazzo, Italy]260
[Three Squirrels, in London]262
[Zur Glocke, in Winnenden, Württemberg]264
[Zum Schlüssel, in Bozen, Austria]267
[The Dog in Shoreditch]270
From a woodcut in “A Vademecum for Malt-Worms,” in the British Museum
[The Queen, in Exeter, England]272
[Zum Storchen, a Modern Sign in Bietigheim]274
[Zur Traube, in Stuttgart, Kolbstrasse 14]276
[Sonne, in Neckarsulm, Württemberg]278
[An Old Landlord]281
From the “Schachbuch,” Lübeck, 1489
[Death and the Landlord]283
From a Dance of Death printed in the Fifteenth Century, now in the Court Library in Stuttgart
[Zur Sonne in Winnenden, Württemberg]284
[The George and Dragon, in Wargrave, England]286
[Zum Postgarten, in München, Bavaria]289
The Cover-Design is from the sign of the “Goldene Sonne” in Leonberg, Württemberg

[Old Tavern Signs]

THE COCK FLEET-STREET LONDON