The History of Signboards, From the Earliest Times to The Present Day. With One Hundred Illustrations in Fac-simile by J. Larwood, Fourth Edition.

The History of Signboards, From the Earliest Times to The Present Day. With One Hundred Illustrations in Fac-simile by J. Larwood, Fourth Edition.

Author: Larwood, Jacob (14 October 1826 – 1918) and Hotten, John Camden (12 September 1832, – 14 June 1873)

4to.(7.5" x 9.75")1868. Larwood, Jacob and Hotten, John Camden. London. John Camden Hotten. Limited Large Paper Edition 1/100. Quarter black leather over red paper boards. Spine with gilt title towards head, gilt edition towards center, gilt publisher at foot. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed with loss to tips, boards scuffed and scraped with paper loss to edges. Evident repairs to boards at hinges, black tape at head and foot of spine. Top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Attestation slip tipped in to first free endpaper, colored frontispiece, 19 plates, 9 "extra" plates #20-28. Damp staining to one plate, affecting image, small bit of foxing. Attestation slip states "The History of Sign-boards. Of this Large Paper Edition only 100 Copies have been printed, containing, besides the whole of the text and pictures given in the small paper edition, Seventy-Two Additional Illustrations of ancient Signboards, with other reminiscences of Old London."

From Wiki: Herman Diederik Johan van Schevichaven (14 October 1826 – 1918) who wrote as Jacob Larwood, was a Dutch non-fiction author.

John Camden Hotten (12 September 1832, Clerkenwell – 14 June 1873, Hampstead) was an English bibliophile and publisher. He is best known for his clandestine publishing of numerous erotic and pornographic titles. Hotten was a compiler of an English language dictionary of slang, first published in 1859 under the title A dictionary of modern slang, cant, and vulgar words. The book was reissued posthumously in 1874 and reprinted numerous times. Other works bearing his imprint followed, in the composition of nearly all of which he took some part; many he wrote himself. His most laborious and least-known compilation was the Handbook of Topography and Family History of England and Wales (1863). Hotten contributed weekly articles of literary news to the Literary Gazette during its last year (1862); to George Godwin's short-lived Parthenon (1862–3); and to the London Review (1863–6). He was author of minor biographies of Thackeray (under the name of Theodore Taylor), 1864, and Dickens, 1870, 1873; the History of Signboards (with Jacob Larwood) (1867); Literary Copyright, Seven Letters Addressed to Earl Stanhope (1871); and The Golden Treasury of Thought. A Gathering of Quotations (1874). Hotten also undertook several translations of Erckmann-Chatrian's works, and edited among many other titles, Sarcastic Notices of the Long Parliament (1863), The Little London Directory of 1677 (1863), and The Original List of Persons who went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600–1700 (1874), which remains important for genealogists today, and was reprinted in 1938, 1962, and 2012. A supplemental list edited by James C. Brandow was published in 1982 under the (shortened) title Omitted Chapters from Hotten's Original Lists…: Census Returns, Parish Registers, and Militia Rolls from the Barbados Census of 1679/80. Hotten's last work was Macaulay the Historian (1873), which was published eight days after his death.

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