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 shoemakers in old Time, with their Worthy Deeds and Generous Humours. Also demonstrating why it was called the gentle-craft; And how the Proverb first came, A Shoemaker's Son is a Prince Born. To which is added, (what is not in any Book of the like Nature) The Merry Pranks of the Green King of St. Martin's, a Shoemaker so called. Concluding with The Shoemakers Glory: Being a Merry Song in the Praise of Shoemakers. To be sung by them every Year on the 25th of October, being Crispin. Adorned with Pictures suitable to each Story.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Deloney, Thomas, 1543?-1600.

Standardized Title:

Gentle craft

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shoemakers--Anecdotes--Early works to 1800.

Shoemakers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([12],104 [i.e.105], [3] p. ) ill.

Other Title:

Delightful,

Place of Publication:

London : printed for Henry Woodgate and Samuel Brooks, at the Golden-Ball, in Pater-Noster-Row, 1758.

Notes:

Anonymous. By Thomas Deloney.

Pp. 97-105 misnumbered 96-104.

Vertical chain lines.

First published in 1637 as 'Gentle craft'.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T60634.

OCLC:

642642521