The signboards of old London shops : a review of the shop signs employed by the London tradesmen during the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries. / Compiled from the author's collection of contemporary trade-cards and billheads by Sir Ambrose Heal, F.S.A. ; illustrated with upwards of 400 collotypes. 3085671

The signboards of old London shops : a review of the shop signs employed by the London tradesmen during the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries. / Compiled from the author's collection of contemporary trade-cards and billheads by Sir Ambrose Heal, F.S.A. ; illustrated with upwards of 400 collotypes.

Sir Ambrose Heal (1872-1959)

Date

1947

Materials

Place of origin

London

Collection

Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire

NT 3085671

Summary

Bibliographic description

[6], 220 p., V [i.e. 6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 4to. Provenance: Pencil inscription on front pastedown: "Fairhaven. / Anglesey Abbey. / from / Audrey Pauncefote. / Christmas 1947." [i.e. to Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding; Twentieth-century quarter publisher's black cloth, red cloth over boards; black stamped picture on upper board: signboard with black lettered title; gilt lettered spine; red top edge.

Makers and roles

Sir Ambrose Heal (1872-1959), author

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