author: jacob larwood

The History of Signboards from the Earliest Times to the Present Day by Jacob Larwood and John Camden Hotten

... ESSEX SERPENT is a sign in King Street , Covent Garden , and in Charles Street , Westminster , perhaps in allusion to a fabu- lous monster recorded in a catalogue of wonders and awful prog- nostications contained in a broadside of 1704 ...

The History of Signboards: From the Earliest Times to the Present Day

... ESSEX SERPENT is a sign in King Street , Covent Garden , and in Charles Street , Westminster , perhaps in allusion to a fabu- lous monster recorded in a catalogue of wonders and awful prog- nostications contained in a broadside of 1704 ...

The History of Signboards, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day. ... With One Hundred Illustrations in Fac-simile by J. L. L.P.

... ESSEX SERPENT is a sign in King Street , Covent Garden , and in Charles Street , Westminster , perhaps in allusion to a fabu- lous monster recorded in a catalogue of wonders and awful prog- nostications contained in a broadside of 1704 ...

The History of Signboards ... Third Edition

... ESSEX SERPENT is a sign in King Street , Covent Garden , and in Charles Street , Westminster , perhaps in allusion to a fabu- lous monster recorded in a catalogue of wonders and awful prog- nostications contained in a broadside of 1704 ...

The History of Signboards: From the Earliest Times to the Present Day

... Zurich : - " Beware of the raven of Zurich , " Tis a bird of omen ill , With a noisy and unclean breast , And a very , very long bill . " It is amusing to see how wit runs in the same channel . In " Scrapeana , a Collection of Anecdotes ...

The History of Signboards, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day

... RAVEN INN at Zurich : - " Beware of the raven of Zurich , ' Tis a bird of omen ill , With a noisy and unclean breast , And a very , very long bill . " It is amusing to see how wit runs in the same channel . In " Scrapeana , a Collection ...

The History of Signboards: From the Earliest Times to the Present Day

... RAVEN INN at Zurich : - 66 " Beware of the raven of Zurich , ' Tis a bird of omen ill , With a noisy and unclean breast , And a very , very long bill . " It is amusing to see how wit runs in the same channel . In Scrapeana , a ...

The Book of Clerical Anecdotes

... the room . " White had gone too far to retreat . The parson came , and Jerry and my lady's woman were made one flesh in the presence of the Protector . IGNORANCE IS BLISS . RATOR HENLEY meeting a friend at a coffee - house , the ...

The History of Signboards: From the Earliest Times to the Present Day

... the RAVEN INN at Zorich : “ Beware of tho raven of Zurich , ' Tis a bird of omen ill , With a noisy and unclean breast , And a very , very long bill . " It is amusing to see how wit runs in the same channel In Scrapeana , a Collection ...

The History of Signboards: From the Earliest Times to the Present Day

... Essex SERPENT is a sign in King Street , Covent Garden , and in Charles Street , Westminster , perhaps in allusion to a fabulous monster recorded in a catalogue of wonders and awful prognostications contained in a broadside of 1704 ...

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