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A street scene with a tall man offering snuff to a short, fat man. Coloured etching by W.P., 1827.

Mantes-la-Jolie, France: the hospital on the Boulevard Saint-Lazare. Photographic postcard, ca. 1920.

A busy street corner with traders stopping for a tankard of beer and an artist painting a pub sign. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.

A busy street corner with traders stopping for a tankard of beer and an artist painting a pub sign. Engraving by T. Cook, c. 1800, after W. Hogarth.

A man and woman dance outside a tavern named after George IV, a man plays a pipe and people sit drinking decorously. Etching by T. Lane (?), 1822, after J. Gillray.

Amasamang, Ghana: Semanu, a medicine man, and his two assistants, all wearing white robes, standing beside a sign advertising his services. Photograph (by Kurt Lubinski?), 1940/1960.

Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: exterior of a reconstruction of a seventeenth-century English apothecary's shop. Photograph.

Histoire des enseignes de Paris : Revue et publiée par le Bibliophile Jacob [pseud.] avec un appendice par J. Cousin.

Tavern anecdotes, and reminiscences of the origin of signs, clubs, coffee-houses, streets, city companies, wards, etc., intended as a lounge-book for Londoners and their country cousins / By one of the old school. [W. West].

Thirty-six health and safety signs that can be found on construction sites. Colour lithograph by the Berufsgenossenschaften der Bauwirtschaft, ca. 2000.

The trade signs of Essex : a popular account of the origin and meanings of the public house & other signs now or formerly found in the county of Essex / by Miller Christy.

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Histoire des enseignes de Paris : Revue et publiée par le Bibliophile Jacob [pseud.] avec un appendice par J. Cousin.

Tavern anecdotes, and reminiscences of the origin of signs, clubs, coffee-houses, streets, city companies, wards, etc., intended as a lounge-book for Londoners and their country cousins / By one of the old school. [W. West].

Thirty-six health and safety signs that can be found on construction sites. Colour lithograph by the Berufsgenossenschaften der Bauwirtschaft, ca. 2000.

The trade signs of Essex : a popular account of the origin and meanings of the public house & other signs now or formerly found in the county of Essex / by Miller Christy.

Mantes-la-Jolie, France: the hospital on the Boulevard Saint-Lazare. Photographic postcard, ca. 1920.