A01=Cecil A. Meadows
advertising
Author_Cecil A. Meadows
billboards
British material culture
British shops
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Category=JHB
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Category=KCA
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commercial iconography
Economic history
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historical shopfront identification
marketing
medieval shop emblems
nonverbal marketing symbols
retail semiotics
Shop signs
social history
visual communication history
Product details
- ISBN 9781041135999
- Weight: 520g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 21 Nov 2025
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Trade Signs and their Origin (1957) surveys the history and usage of traders’ signs in Britain. The use of distinguishing signs, badges or emblems on shops is an interesting social and economic factor that spread in the Middle Ages, as traders identified and advertised their shops to an illiterate population.
