A Classic of Fashion Chromolithography
Ladies’ Old-Fashioned Shoes.
Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1885.
Price: $3,000.00
About the item
First edition. One of 250 copies. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper to Captain Gordon Fry. 11 chomolithographed plates. [8], [22], 9, [1]pp. 1 vols. Oblong folio. Publisher's roan-backed paper covered boards, some wear and staining. Minor staining to the endpapers, else minor finger soiling. Ownership signatures on the half title. Colas 1312; Hiler, p. 395; Lipperheide 1744.
Item #367020
Important illustrated monograph on 17th century women's shoes. “The following Illustrations of Old Shoes are intended to preserve in an intelligible form what is fast crumbling into dust; and it has been my endeavour to collect the very best and most authentic specimens, as well as to show the variety of shapes and the excellence of the workmanship and design used by our ancestors” (Preface).
