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Old Tavern Signs
by Fritz Endell
Old Tavern Signs
Old Dutch Signs
From a Painting by Gerrit and Job Berkheyden
Old Tavern Signs
An Excursion in the History
of Hospitality by
Fritz Endell
With Illustrations by the Author
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company
Printed at The Riverside Press Cambridge
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COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Published November 1916
THIS EDITION, PRINTED AT THE RIVERSIDEPRESS, CAMBRIDGE, CONSISTS OF FIVE HUNDREDAND FIFTY NUMBERED COPIES, OFWHICH FIVE HUNDRED ARE FOR SALE. THISIS NUMBER 5
Preface
For a sign! as indeed man, with his singular imaginative faculties,can do little or nothing without signs.
The author’s love of the subject is his only apology for his boldundertaking. First it was the filigree quality and the beauty of thedelicate tracery of the wrought-iron signs in the picturesque villagesof southern Germany that attracted his attention; then their deepsymbolic significance exerted its influence more and more over hismind, and tempted him at last to follow their history back until hecould discover its multifarious relations to the thought and feelingof earlier generations.
For the shaping of the English text the author is greatly indebted tohis American friends Mr. D. S. Muzzey, Mr. Emil Heinrich Richter, andMr. Carleton Noyes.
