Shoemaking was a traditional handicraft profession, which has now been largely replaced by the industrial manufacture of footwear. Shoemakers or cobblers produced a range of footwear items, including shoes, boots, sandals, clogs and moccasins. These are generally made of leather, wood, rubber, plastic, jute or other plant material.

From the shoes beginnings in early Egyptain times, shoe rubber, its history and manufacture, the humble village cobbler, thru to early shoe factories - their design and machinery, stories of early shoemaking, vintage shoe catalogs, this collection of rare and vintage books provides a valuable insight into the history of shoe design, their manufacture and repair. A library of nineteen {19} books presented to you on a Gift Quality CD.

Books Include:

:: N.D. How To become Your Own Boot Repairer - 42 pages

:: 1847 The Book of the Feet - 172 pages.

:: 1853 The Boot and Shoemaker's Assistant - 238 pages.

:: 1872 Facts Worth Knowing About Boots & Shoes - 20 pages.

:: 1882 How to Make a Shoe by Jno P. Headley Jr - 127 pages.

:: 1884 A Short Treatise on Boots & Shoes, Ancient & Modern - 44 pages.

:: 1890 From the Forest to the Foot - 36 pages.

:: 1890 Hirth & Krause Leather Catalog - 80 pages.

:: 1891 The Finishers Manual - 56 pages.

:: 1897 Shoe-ology - 28 pages.

:: 1898 Shoe Repair Catalog - 36 pages.

:: 1901 Rattermann Shoe Catalog - 60 pages.

:: 1902 The Manufacture of Boots and Shoes - 324 pages.

:: 1906 Royal Canadian Rubber Footwear Catalog - 28 pages.

:: 1910 Shoe Factory Efficiency - 38 pages.

:: 1912 How to Bottom a Welted Shoe by Hand - 68 pages.

:: 1913 Life-Buoy Shoe Catalog - 68 pages.

:: 1915 Shoe Machinery Catalog - 328 pages.

:: 1916 Handbook of Shoe Factory Engineering - 54 pages.

:: 1916 Home Book Of Expert Shoe Repairing - 44 pages.

:: 1916 Recollections of Sixty Years in the Shoe Trade - 228 pages.

:: 1924 Shoe Repair Specialties Catalog - 38 pages.

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