1-158-937 - Oxford Science Archive/Heritage Images

Shoemaker, c1845. A shoemaker sits by his bench working on a boot or shoe, his tools on a tray beside him. On the bench stand the leather and the sole for a boot. Surrounding vignettes show him sewing leather, nailing on a sole, fitting a boot on a client, various styles of boot and shoe and (bottom left and centre) lasts of a boot and a shoe. From The Child's Treasury of Knowledge and Amusement by Reuben Rambles. (London, c1845).