AMERICAN PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I. ON THE MOST ANCIENT COVERINGS FOR THE FEET.
CHAPTER II. THE HISTORY OF BOOTS AND SHOES IN ENGLAND.
CHAPTER III. ON THE MORE MODERN FORMS OF FOREIGN BOOTS AND SHOES.
CHAPTER IV. COMMENCEMENT OF THE TRADE.
CHAPTER V. THE STRUCTURE OF THE HUMAN FEET, ETC.
CHAPTER VI. THE POETRY OF THE FEET, ETC.
CHAPTER VII. HISTORY OF BOOTS AND SHOES IN THE UNITED STATES.
CHAPTER VIII. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF EMINENT SHOEMAKERS.
CHAPTER IX. CRISPIN ANECDOTES, ETC.
THE
BOOK OF THE FEET:
A
HISTORY OF BOOTS AND SHOES,
With Illustrations
OF THE
FASHIONS OF THE EGYPTIANS, HEBREWS, PERSIANS, GREEKS, AND
ROMANS, AND THE PREVAILING STYLE THROUGHOUT EUROPE,
DURING THE MIDDLE AGES, DOWN TO THE PRESENT PERIOD;
ALSO,
HINTS TO LAST-MAKERS, AND REMEDIES FOR CORNS, ETC.
B Y J. S P A R K E S H A L L,
Patent-Elastic-Boot Maker to her Majesty the Queen, the Queen Dowager,
and the Queen of the Belgians.
FROM THE SECOND LONDON EDITION,
WITH A HISTORY OF BOOTS AND SHOES IN THE UNITED STATES,
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF EMINENT SHOEMAKERS,
AND CRISPIN ANECDOTES.
N E W Y O R K:
WILLIAM H. GRAHAM, TRIBUNE BUILDINGS,
J. S. REDFIELD, CLINTON HALL.
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1847.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1847,
By J. S. REDFIELD,
in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States, in
and for the Southern District of New York.
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STEREOTYPED BY REDFIELD & SAVAGE,
13 Chambers Street, N. Y.
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