Further combinations are the BIBLE AND SUN. The SUN was the sign of Wynkyn de Worde, and the printers that succeeded him in his house. It may, however, in this combination have been an emblem of the Sun of Truth, or the Light of the World. It was the sign of J. Newberry, in St Paul’s Churchyard, the publisher of Goldsmith’s “Vicar of Wakefield;” also of C. Bates, near Pie Corner; and of Richard Reynolds, in the Poultry, both ballad printers in the times of Charles II. and William III. Then there is the BIBLE AND BALL, a sign of a bookseller in Ave Maria Lane in 1761, who probably hung up a Globe to indicate the sale of globes and maps; and the BIBLE AND DIAL, over against St Dunstan’s Church, Fleet Street, in 1720, was the sign of the notorious Edmund Curll, who was pilloried at Charing Cross, and pilloried in Pope’s verses. _The Dial_ was, in all likelihood, a sun-dial on the front wall of his house. Of the Apocryphal Books there is only one example among the signboards, viz., BEL AND THE DRAGON, which was at one time not uncommon, more particularly with apothecaries. It was represented by a Bell and a Dragon, as appears from the _Spectator_, No. 28. “One Apocryphical Heathen God is also represented by this figure [of a Bell], which, in conjunction with the Dragon, makes a very handsome picture in several of our streets.” Although at the first glance this sign seems taken from the doubtful books of the Old Testament, still there is nothing in the Apocryphal book which could in any way prompt the choice of it for a signboard. After all, it may possibly be only a combination, or corruption, of two other signs. There still remain a few public-houses which employ it,--as in Worship Street; at Cookham, Maidenhead; at Norton in the Moors, &c., whilst in Boss Street, Horsely Down, there is a variation in the form of the BELL AND GRIFFIN. From a handbill of Topham, the Strong Man,[371] we see that it was vulgarly called the KING ASTYAGES ARMS, for no better reason than because King Astyages is the first name in the story: the incident related in the Book of Bel and the Dragon having taken place after his death. [Illustration: PLATE XI. HOLE IN THE WALL. (“Guide for Malt-Worms.” Circa 1720.) STAR, OR BUSH. (MS., circa 1425.) BARLEY MOW. (Hogarth’s print of Beer St.) DOG AND DUCK. (In the brick wall of Bethlehem Hospital.) FLYING HORSE. (“Guide for Malt-Worms.” Circa 1720.)] A very common sign of old, as well as at present, is the ADAM AND EVE. Our first parents were constant _dramatis personæ_ in the mediæval mysteries and pageants, on which occasions, with the _naïveté_ of those times, Eve used to come on the stage exactly in the same costume as she appeared to Adam before the Fall.[372] The sign was adopted by various trades, including the publishers of books, as we may see from the following quaint title:--