The Signs of Old Lombard Street (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Signs of Old Lombard Street About sixteen years have now elapsed since I read a paper before the Institute of Bankers upon the "Signs of Old Lombard Street" which was shortly afterwards published in book form by the Leadenhall Press, illustrated with upwards of sixty drawings of Old Signs, but as it was an impossibility to obtain many of the actual signs of Lombard Street Houses as they had long since been destroyed. I had recourse to signs from contemporary sources. I may add that it is often difficult to localise the signs, as we occasionally find two similar ones or even different signs flourishing at the same time on one site, under which distinct businesses were carried on. This may, perhaps, be accounted for by the fact that the house sometimes had a different sign to the shop, as some of the latter were merely booths or lean-to sheds against the houses or churches. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.