Ladies’ Old-Fashioned Shoes. With eleven illustrations from originals in his collection. [with:] Supplement to Old-Fashioned Shoes.

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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' (Preface), based on the the earlier part of his own collection. Greig's own copy has annotations revealing that only 250 copies were printed, of which he presented 62, though many of these will have been dissected for the attractive plates, now much more often found in framed in galleries than still present in the original form.
The supplement was published separately four years later and illustrates four more shoes Greig had acquired since publishing the first volume, alongside some reprinted eighteenth-century drawings. Greig did annotate his own copy with notes for a second edition, but the project never came to fruition, although a companion volume on nineteenth-century shoes appeared in 1900.