The Signboards of Old London Shops
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- London: B.T. Batsford, Ltd, 1947
London: B.T. Batsford, Ltd, 1947. 1st. Cloth. Collectible; Very Good/Very Good. The 1947 1st edition, limited to 1,000 copies. Solid and VG (with light offsetting at the front free endpaper) in a bright, price-clipped, VG dustjacket, with light abrading at the spine and along the front panel's lower edge. Quarto, 220 pgs., "illustrated with upward of 400 collotypes". "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