M. de Garsault's 1767 Art of the Shoemaker: An Annotated Translation

by François A. de Garsault

Tens of thousands of shoemakers worked in eighteenth-century Paris and London, but if any wrote about their trade before M. de Garsault in his 1767 Art du cordonnier, nothing survives. Surprisingly little scholarship has been published since, until this richly contextualized translation. Informing this edition are D. A. Saguto's extensive notes and incisive examinations of eighteenth-century German and Italian sources as well as later French editions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896726509
• ISBN13: 9780896726505
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press and Colonial Will
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 4.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 9.3" x 11.5"