Old Tavern Signs
by Fritz August Gottfried Endell
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About this eBook
- Author
- Endell, Fritz August Gottfried, 1873-1955
- Title
- Old Tavern Signs: An Excursion in the History of Hospitality
- Credits
- E-text prepared by Chris Curnow, Matthew Wheaton, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( archive.org)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- GT: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation: Manners and customs
- Subject
- Taverns (Inns)
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 41869
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41869
- Release Date
- January 18, 2013
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Old Tavern Signs An Excursion in the History of Hospitality by Fritz Endell
- 2.Preface
- 3.Contents
- 4.Illustrations
- 5.CHAPTER I HOSPITALITY AND ITS TOKENS
- 6.CHAPTER II ANCIENT TAVERN SIGNS
- 7.CHAPTER III ECCLESIASTICAL HOSPITALITY AND ITS SIGNS
- 8.CHAPTER IV SECULAR HOSPITALITY: KNIGHTLY AND POPULAR SIGNS
- 9.CHAPTER V TRAVELING WITH SHAKESPEARE AND MONTAIGNE
- 10.CHAPTER VI TAVERN SIGNS IN ART—ESPECIALLY IN PICTURES BY THE DUTCH MASTERS
- 11.CHAPTER VII ARTISTS AS SIGN-PAINTERS
- 12.CHAPTER VIII THE SIGN IN POETRY
- 13.CHAPTER IX POLITICAL SIGNS
- 14.CHAPTER X TRAVELING WITH GOETHE AND FREDERIC THE GREAT
- 15.CHAPTER XI THE ENGLISH SIGN AND ITS PECULIARITIES
- 16.CHAPTER XII THE ENEMIES OF THE SIGN AND ITS END
- 17.ENVOY AND THE MORAL?
- 18.Bibliography
- 19.Index
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