“Boots and Shoes: Their Making, Manufacture and Selling

A Work in Eight Volumes

Dealing with Pattern Cutting and Making, Upper Leathers and Clicking, Closing the Upper, Materials for Bottoming, Cutting and Preparation, Lasting and Making, Factory Organization, Anatomy, Measuring and Obtaining Data from the Foot, the Making of Lasts, the Fitting up of Lasts, Bespoke Bootmaking, Retailing and Salesmanship”

1935; Edited by F.Y. Golding

Published by Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Pitman House, Parker Street, Kingsway, London, W.C.2

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7 of 8 Volumes: Vols. II-VIII

Hardback volumes in original green cloth binding with gold lettering, fully illustrated.

Covers in good condition.

Volume 4 with original dust jacket. Set completed with volume 5 from another edition run. External fading to spine on volume 7.

Pages clean with no foxing to paper and no writing or notes.

Good condition

The most comprehensive text on shoemaking and the processes of hand-sewn shoemaking - produced at the height of the era.