Description

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Dustcover is delaminated. Pages in great condition. Some light marking due to age. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> In early times when the majority of the people were unlettered goldsmiths like other shop-keepers had signs by which their shops were known and some retained the custom down to quite recent times. The written name would have been of little use when few could read whereas the setting up of a sign which was easily understood afforded a convenient mesans of distinguishing the shop; it is therefore not improbable that gold- smiths took for their mark the sign of their shop. After a time however as may be seen in the tables letters were used as the worker’s mark. The custom of using signs or symbols for makers’ marks gradually fell into disuse in the 17th century and (except in conjunction with initial letters) by the time of Charles II. we find but very few marks consisting of symbols. A rose in a pentagon an escallop a goose three storks and very few others comprise all that are used without letters accompanying them. But symbols with letters either above below or between them. (OS)