Author: WRIGHT, THOMAS.
Title: The Romance of the Shoe.
Description: London: C.J.Farncombe & Sons Ltd, 1922. 1st edition. Being The History of Shoemaking in all Ages, and Especially in England and Scotland. Chapters include: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. Pp.xvi/323/1(ad for another book by the author, black & white frontispiece + 51 further plates, occasional spotting throughout,owner's name in pencil to front free endpaper. Dark blue cloth, gilt title to front and spine, bumps to corners + minor edge wear. Scarce. Good.

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