[COSTUME & HERALDRY]. LACROIX (Paul) [alias le Bibliophi - Lot 159

[COSTUME & HERALDRY]. LACROIX (Paul) [alias le Bibliophile Jacob] & DUCHESNE (Alphonse). Histoire de la chaussure depuis l'antiquité la plus reculée jusqu'à nos jours. Followed by L'Histoire sérieuse et drolatique des cordonniers et des artisans dont la profession se ratache a la cordonnerie. Paris, Adolphe Delahays, Libraire-Éditeur, 1862. In-4°, half-black half-chagrin, spine ribbed and decorated (period binding). Eight heraldic plates in color, enhanced with gold and silver, a few other plates in black and numerous illustrations in the text; 48 engraved heraldic plates collected in fine (34 from an armorial of shoemakers and fourteen from an armorial of cobblers). From the library of the Comte d'Estampes, with bookplate. A few foxed leaves and a few freckles, more abundant on the plates of the two armorials. Not included in the Saffroy.