Old Tavern Signs: An Excursion in the History of Hospitality

Preface

For a sign! as indeed man, with his singular imaginative faculties, can do little or nothing without signs. CARLYLE

The author’s love of the subject is his only apology for his bold undertaking. First it was the filigree quality and the beauty of the delicate tracery of the wrought-iron signs in the picturesque villages of southern Germany that attracted his attention;...