Ladies' Old-Fashioned Shoes
Item #83940
GREIG, T. Watson. Ladies' Old-Fashioned Shoes. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1885. 1st edition. Oblong folio. [8], [22], 9, [1]pp., including 11 chomolithographed plates. [bound with] GREIG, T. Watson. Supplement to Old-Fashioned Shoes. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1889. [3], [12], 10pp., including 6 chromolithographed plates. Orig. printed boards, spine rebacked in red linen, t.e.g. A vivid copy of two marvelous books, compiled by a real connoisseur of ladies' shoes. Grieg (1837-1912), a member of various historical societies in Perthshire, Scotland, was apparently a collector of historical shoes and authored a number of books to display his collection in full color. The preface explains that "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." The first work shows a variety of shoes, beginning with one owned by Mary, Queen of Scots, and has four appendices of historical information about shoes. The Supplement includes four additional color plates of historical shoes in Greig's collection, and two black and white plates with sketches of Roman shoes. The appendix to the Supplement reprints a history of shoes found in the 1829 London Encyclopedia.
Price: $3,500.00