Jacob Larwood

{{Short description|Dutch non-fiction author}} thumb|Herman Diederik Johan van Schevichaven in 1918

'''Herman Diederik Johan van Schevichaven''' (14 October 1826<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/bran038biog01_01/bran038biog01_01_3639.php|title=J.G. Frederiks en F. Jos. van den Branden, Biographisch woordenboek der Noord- en Zuidnederlandsche letterkunde · dbnl|website=DBNL}}</ref> – 1918<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://library.hull.ac.uk/record=b1017814~S1|title=The history of signboards, from the earliest times to the present day|first1=Jacob|last1=Larwood|first2=John Camden|last2=Hotten|date=June 3, 1875|publisher=Chatto and Windus|via=library.hull.ac.uk Library Catalog}}</ref>) who wrote as '''Jacob Larwood''',<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=BLVU1&search_scope=LSCOP-ALL&docId=BLL01002080739&fn=permalink|title=The History of Signboards ... With one hundred illustrations ... by J. Larwood, etc. - British Library|website=explore.bl.uk}}</ref> was a Dutch non-fiction author.

==Selected publications== thumb|Van Schevichaven (1908)

===Dutch=== * ''Bijdragen tot eene geschiedenis der Bataven met kaarten'', Leiden, 1875. * ''Epigraphie der Bataafsche krijgslieden in de Romeinsche legers''

===English=== * ''The History of Signboards, From the Earliest Times to the Present Day''. John Camden Hotten, London, 1866. * ''The Book of Clerical Anecdotes: A gathering from many sources of the antiquities, humours, and eccentricities of "the cloth"''. J. C. Hotten, London, 1871. * ''The Story of the London Parks''. J. C. Hotten, London, 1872. * ''Theatrical Anecdotes, or Fun and Curiosities of the Play, the Playhouse, and the Players''. Chatto and Windus, London, 1882. * ''Forensic Anecdotes or Humour and Curiosities of the Law and of the Men of Law''. Chatto & Windus, London, 1882.

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== External links == *{{Commons category-inline}} *[https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Larwood%2C%20Jacob%2C%201827%2D1918 Larwood, Jacob, 1827-1918 | The Online Books Page]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Larwood, Jacob}} Category:1826 births Category:1918 deaths Category:19th-century Dutch non-fiction writers Category:Writers from Nijmegen Category:Dutch emigrants to the United Kingdom