The Romance of the Shoe : Being the History of Shoemaking 1922

The Romance of the Shoe : Being the History of Shoemaking

By Thomas Wright

Published by C J Farncombe & Sons, London, 1922. First Edition. Hardback, 8vo, blue cloth with gilt titles, pp xvi, 323, 1( ad for another book by the author), black & white frontispiece + 51 further plates.

CHAPTERS
I.Egypt, Assyria,Greece;
II.Rome, Britain, and Saxon and Norman England;
III.The Plantagenets, Lancaster and York;
IV.The Tudors;
V.The Stuarts, Shoemakers' Tokens and Signs;
VI.The First Three Georges, The Hardy Trial, Late Tokens;
VII.The Old Stitchmen;
VIII.Shoemakers' Holidays, Songs, Chap-Books and Proverbs;
IX.Machinery. The Footwear Press;
X.Anecdotes, Shoemaker Wit and Humour, The Shoe in Fiction and Poetry.

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