Architecture for the Poor; an Experiment in ...

A collection of six original pen and watercolour studies of 'Manfield' shoes, heightened in white, with the company logo to the bottom corner, window mounted, bound in full morocco, smooth spine, covers with single fillet border, elaborate gilt inner dentelles, by Birdsall of Northampton. Finely executed series of shoe and slipper designs, presumably for a catalogue or advertisement campaign. Birdsall were of course based in Northampton, which was the centre of English shoe-making, as were Manfield Size: Folio.  Bookseller Inventory # 000157