Old London Coaching Inns and Their Successors; Inns and Inn Signs: Sacred and Secular; English Inn Signs: Being a Revised and Modernized Version of History of Signboards; Kent Inns, A Distillation

A very smart four-volume set exploring the signs and origins of various English inns. This set comprises four volumes on English inns, in particular looking at the origins and designs of various signs found across London, Kent and the rest of the country.In the publisher's original cloth bindings.Includes the following works: Old London Coaching Inns and Their Successors by Arthur Groom (1928) - With a tipped in slip 'With Compliments from The London Midland & Scottish Railway Company', dated 1937. With a colour frontispiece, one further colour plates and four double-sided monochrome plates. Inns and Inn Signs: Sacred and Secular by Charles Robert Swift (1947) - With many in-text illustrations. English Inn Signs: Being a Revised and Modernized Version of History of Signboards by Jacob Larwood and John Camden Hotten (1951) - With eight double-sided monochrome plates through the text and a sixty-four page catalogue of further monochrome illustrations. Kent Inns, A Distillation (1955) - Profusely illustrated with annotated monochrome photographs throughout the text.Collated, complete. In the original cloth bindings. Externally, very smart, with rubbing and bumping to the extremities, most notable to 'Old London Coaching Inns'. With marks to the boards of 'Kent Inns' and a tipped in 'With Compliments' slip to the front pastedown of 'Old London Coaching Inns'. Bookplate of one Richard Falkiner to the front pastedown of 'Inns and Inn Signs'. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with offsetting to the endpapers to all and occasional scattered spots to 'Old London Coaching Inns'. Contemporary ownership inscription to the pastedowns and title page of 'English Inn Signs'. Very Good Indeed. …