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The delightful, princely, and entertaining history of the gentle-craft : containing many matters of delight very pleasant to read : shewing what famous men have been shooe-makers in old time, with their worthy deeds and generous humours, also demonstrating why it was called the gentle-craft, and how the proverb first came, A shoemaker's son is a prince born : to which is added The merry pranks of the Green King of St. Martin's, a shoemaker so called, concluding with the Shoemakers Glory, being a merry song in the praise of shoemakers, to be sung by them every year on the 25th of October, being Crispin's birth-day : adorned with pictures suitable to each story.

Accession number
PML 8212.2
Creator
Deloney, Thomas, 1543?-1600.
Published
London : Printed for A. Wilde ... C. Hitch and L. Hawes ... S. Crowder and Comp. ... C. and R. Ware ... and H. Woodgate, and S. Brookes ..., 1760.
Credit line
Purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Notes
Originally published in 1637 as "The gentle craft"; by Thomas Deloney.
Pages 167-168 contain text of the song "Shooe-maker's glory."
Vertical chain lines.
Signatures: A-G¹².
Description
168 p. : ill. (woodcut) ; 16 cm.
Provenance
Bookplate of Henry Cunliffe; autograph of John Heaviside; from the Toovey collection.
Classification
Department