The pleasant and princely history of the gentle-craft : a discourse containing many matters of delight : very pleasant to read : shewing what famous men have been shooe-makers in time past in this land with their worthy deeds and great hospitality : set forth with pictures and variety of wit and mirth : declaring the cause why it was called the gentle-craft and also how the proverb first grew, A shooe-maker's son is a prince born /

The pleasant and princely history of the gentle-craft : a discourse containing many matters of delight : very pleasant to read : shewing what famous men have been shooe-makers in time past in this land with their worthy deeds and great hospitality : set forth with pictures and variety of wit and mirth : declaring the cause why it was called the gentle-craft and also how the proverb first grew, A shooe-maker's son is a prince born /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Deloney, Thomas, 1543?-1600.
Uniform title:Gentle craft
Imprint:London : Printed for H. Rhodes ..., [1675?]
Description:1 online resource ([16], 50, [8] pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:Early English books online.
Subject:
Shoemakers -- Anecdotes.
Shoemakers -- Early works to 1800.
Shoemakers.
Anecdotes.
Early works.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11819634
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Other title:History of the gentle-craft.
Notes:Added t.p. engraved: The history of the gentle-craft.
Published also under various titles: The gentle craft, Crispine and Crispianus, The princely and pleasant history of the gentle craft.
Written by Thomas Deloney. Cf. Halkett and Laing.
Probable date of publication from Wing.
Reproduction of original in Cambridge University Library.
Wing D960
Print version record.

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