Crispine and crispianus, or, The delightful and princely history of the gentle-craft: Containing many matters of great delight, very pleasant to read; shewing what famous men have been shoemakers in old times, with their worthy deeds and generous humours: also demonstrating why it was called the gentle-craft; and how the proverb first came, that a shoemaker's son is a prince born. Concluding with the shoemakers glory: being a merry song in the praise of shoemakers; to be sung by them every year on the twenty-fifth of October, being St. Crispine. Adorned with suitable pictures
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- Crispine and crispianus, or, The delightful and princely history of the gentle-craft: Containing many matters of great delight, very pleasant to read; shewing what famous men have been shoemakers in old times, with their worthy deeds and generous humours: also demonstrating why it was called the gentle-craft; and how the proverb first came, that a shoemaker's son is a prince born. Concluding with the shoemakers glory: being a merry song in the praise of shoemakers; to be sung by them every year on the twenty-fifth of October, being St. Crispine. Adorned with suitable pictures
- Gentle craft. Abridgments
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London : Printed and sold by J. Hollis, Shoemaker-Row, Black-Friars: also sold by the booksellers in town and country, [1800?]
- Publication year
- 1800
- ESTC No.
- T195928
- Grub Street ID
- 229477
- Description
- 72p. : ill. ; 24°.
- Note
- A version of stories in Thomas Deloney's 'Gentle craft', first published in 1637.
- Uncontrolled note
- Looks post-1800: verify