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 ..., [1690]
Description:[7], 50 p. : ill.
Language:English
Series:Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 813:14.
Subject:
Shoemakers -- Early works to 1800.
Shoemakers.
Format: Microform Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1211634
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Other title:The history of the gentle-craft.
Notes:Reproduction of original in Cambridge University Library.
Added t.p., engraved: The history of the gentle-craft.
Attributed to Thomas Deloney. cf. DNB and Halkett & Laing.
Incomplete? Lacks final poem "How a shooe-makers widow fell in love with her man", followed by "Finis" present in other editions. Halkett & Laing list this title as having 51 p.
A popular title published at various times with the titles: The pleasant history of the gentle craft, The history of the gentle craft, and The gentle craft. There appear to be at least two editions "Printed for H. Rhodes ..." sometime in the late 17th century. Halkett & Laing list one edition of 51 p. while NUC pre-1956 gives one with 48 p.
Wing D961
Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International, 1978. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 813:14)

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