The Leatherworker in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg

The Leatherworker in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg

The Leatherworker in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg - Being an Account of the Nature of Leather, & of the...
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The Leatherworker in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg

The Leatherworker in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg

$18.33 $9.16

The Leatherworker in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg

$18.33 $9.16
Author: Ford, Thomas K.
Format: eBook
Language: English

The Leatherworker in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg - Being an Account of the Nature of Leather, & of the Crafts Commonly Engaged in the Making & Using of It.

Once upon a time there lived in France a poet-bureaucrat by the name of Charles Perrault, who wrote fairy tales. He called one of them Cendrillon ou la Petite Pantoufle de Verre, and ever since 1697, for that was the date of Cinderellas appearance in modern literature, her glass slippers have been a puzzle. Not to children, of course. Generations of youngsters have matter-of-factly accepted as the most natural thing in the world that magic slippers should be of glass (verre). Their elders, however, being less sophisticated about such things, have learnedly quibbled over whether the slippers werent really supposed to be of vair, the costly white squirrel fur once worn only by royalty. Yet leather has been put to these and many other uses over the centuries of recorded history. A list of them would be almost endless, and so would a list of the sources of leather. The following compilation, doubtless far from complete, could have been (it was not) drawn up by an English eighteenth-century or colonial American leatherworker: ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 58293
Author: Ford, Thomas K.
Release Date: Nov 17, 2018
Format: eBook
Language: English

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