[COSTUME & HERALDRY]. LACROIX (Paul) [alias le Bibliophi - Lot 362

[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 and craftsmen whose professions are related to shoemaking. Paris, Adolphe Delahays, Libraire-Éditeur, 1862. In-4°, half blackhead 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.