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 called the Gentle-Craft. And how the Proverb first came A Shooe-Maker's Son is a Prince Born. To which is Added, The Merry Pranks of the Green King of St. Martin's, a Shooe-Maker so called. With the Shooe-Makers Glory: Being a Merry Song in Praise of Shooe Makers To be Sung by them every Year on the 25th of October, being Crispin's Birth-Day. Adorned with pictures suitable to each story.
- Deloney, Thomas, 1543?-1600.
- Date:
- 1760
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Also known as
Gentle craft
Publication/Creation
London : printed for A. Wilde, in Aldersgate-Street; C Hitch and L. Hawes, in Pater-Noster-Row; S. Crowder and Comp. on London-Bridge; C. and R Ware, on Ludgate-Hill: and H. Woodgate, and S. Brookes, in Pater-Noster-Row, 1760.
Physical description
168p. : ill. ; 120.
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References note
ESTC T60633
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.