Inns [ Residences & Lodgings ]
… 1790s. It also shows the inn as a fairly sizeable complex. The image below by the caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson (1787) presents a coaching inn, obviously a rural inn, which is much smaller. Thomas Rowlandson, ‘[A posting inn]’, Yale … institution. 12 6 . See Jacob Larwood and John Camden Hotten, The History of Signboards, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day (London: Hotten, 1867). Images of inns can also be found in Frederick W. Hackwood, Inns, Ales, and Drinking … (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007). On early hotels, see p. 27-29. A large number of pubs and hotels in the present-day UK have nostalgically endowed themselves with the label ‘inn’, promising to provide visitors with the …
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