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Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1885. FIRST EDITION, 2 vols., oblong folio, pp. [viii], [22], 9, [1] + 11 colour lithograph plates; [vi], [12], 10 + 4 colour lithograph plates & 2 black and white plates. Black and white illustrations within pagination, some plates printed with gold or silver inks. Original grey paper boards backed in red roan, boards bordered with black rules, central crest and corner shoe illustrations printed in black, supplement bound in sage green paper wrappers backed in dark green cloth, front wrapper printed in black and bordered with black rules. One leaf in supplement bound upside-down. Leather spine defective, extremities worn, a few small areas of supplement wrappers torn away, corners creased, wrappers lightly soiled. The scarce first book of antiquarian shoe collector Thomas Watson Greig of Glencarse (1837-1912), with the intention ‘to preserve in an intelligible form what is fast crumbling into dust... as well as to to show the variety of shapes and the…
Read More Ladies' Dress Shoes of the Nineteenth Century With Sixty-three Illustrations. by Greig, T. Watson - 1900
by Greig, T. Watson
Ladies' Dress Shoes of the Nineteenth Century With Sixty-three Illustrations.
by Greig, T. Watson
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Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1900. FIRST EDITION, folio, pp. [48] + frontispiece and 21 colour lithograph plates. Some plates printed with gold or silver ink. Original carmine red boards backed in paler red cloth, front board bordered with a double gilt rule and lettered centrally in gilt, four shoe illustrations printed in gilt to corners, edges gilt. A little finger-soiling. Boards somewhat scratched and marked, worn and a little scraped to edges, portion of rear board sunned. A companion book to shoe collector Thomas Watson Greig of Glencarse’s (1837-1912) earlier ‘Ladies' Old-Fashioned Shoes’, focussing on footwear from the 1800s. Many copies were broken for their attractive colour plates, now more often found framed than bound.
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- Book Condition Used
- Quantity Available 1
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher David Douglas
- Place of Publication Edinburgh
- Date Published 1900
- Keywords Art & Architecture Illustrated