The History of Signboards, from the Earliest times to the Present Day

"The History of Signboards, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day" by Jacob Larwood explores the world of old-fashioned signboards and explains why they were once so important. This book is like a time machine, taking you back to when most people couldn't read. Back then, signboards were vital for businesses to show what they sold and for folks to find their way around busy towns. The book talks about all kinds of signs, tells funny stories about them, and how they changed over time. And, the book's beginning shares the problems the authors had when writing it, like how many signs there were and how hard it was to sort them. The book also notes how signs started to disappear as more people learned to read and streets got names. The signs went from being a must-have to just a decoration which is a main idea in the tale of everyday life in the town, long ago