ladies' Dress Shoes of the Nineteenth Century by GREIG, T. WATSON - 1900

Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1885. FIRST EDITION, 2 vols., oblong folio, pp. [viii], [22], 9, [1] + 11 colour lithograph plates; [vi], [12], 10 + 4 colour lithograph plates & 2 black and white plates. Black and white illustrations within pagination, some plates printed with gold or silver inks. Original grey paper boards backed in red roan, boards bordered with black rules, central crest and corner shoe illustrations printed in black, supplement bound in sage green paper wrappers backed in dark green cloth, front wrapper printed in black and bordered with black rules. One leaf in supplement bound upside-down. Leather spine defective, extremities worn, a few small areas of supplement wrappers torn away, corners creased, wrappers lightly soiled. The scarce first book of antiquarian shoe collector Thomas Watson Greig of Glencarse (1837-1912), with the intention ‘to preserve in an intelligible form what is fast crumbling into dust... as well as to to show the variety of shapes and the… Read More

Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1885. 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. 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. A Classic of CFashion hromolithography. 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). Colas 1312; Hiler, p. 395;… Read More

Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1900. FIRST EDITION, folio, pp. [48] + frontispiece and 21 colour lithograph plates. Some plates printed with gold or silver ink. Original carmine red boards backed in paler red cloth, front board bordered with a double gilt rule and lettered centrally in gilt, four shoe illustrations printed in gilt to corners, edges gilt. A little finger-soiling. Boards somewhat scratched and marked, worn and a little scraped to edges, portion of rear board sunned. A companion book to shoe collector Thomas Watson Greig of Glencarse’s (1837-1912) earlier ‘Ladies' Old-Fashioned Shoes’, focussing on footwear from the 1800s. Many copies were broken for their attractive colour plates, now more often found framed than bound.

Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1885. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, oblong folio, pp. [viii], [22], 9, [1] + 11 colour lithograph plates; [vi], [12], 10 + 4 colour lithograph plates & 2 black and white plates. Black and white illustrations within pagination, some plates printed with gold or silver inks. Original grey paper boards backed in red roan, boards bordered with black rules, central crest and corner shoe illustrations printed in black, edges sprinkled red. Some very faint marks. Binding somewhat rubbed and worn, some scrapes to leather. Ink inscription ‘To Mr George Waterston from Thomas W. Greig’ dated October 12, 1885 to initial blank. The scarce first book of antiquarian shoe collector Thomas Watson Greig of Glencarse (1837-1912), with the intention ‘to preserve in an intelligible form what is fast crumbling into dust... as well as to to show the variety of shapes and the excellence of the workmanship and design used by our ancestors’… Read More