A pair of fakir's sandals with iron spikes.

A busy street corner with traders stopping for a tankard of beer and an artist painting a pub sign. Engraving by T. Cook, c. 1800, after W. Hogarth.

A busy street corner with traders stopping for a tankard of beer and an artist painting a pub sign. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.

A young lad pulls off a corpulent man's boots. Coloured extendable lithograph by F. Bouchot, c. 1840.

A pair of Chinese shoes for bound 'lily' feet

A maker of shoes and boots is selling shoes to a woman at the window of his workshop, as his assistants sew and hammer footwear. Woodcut by J. Amman.

Appeal from the buckle trade of London and Westminster to the royal conductors of fashion

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Footwear

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A pair of Chinese shoes for bound 'lily' feet

A pair of Chinese shoes for bound 'lily' feet

A busy street corner with traders stopping for a tankard of beer and an artist painting a pub sign. Engraving by T. Cook, c. 1800, after W. Hogarth.

Appeal from the buckle trade of London and Westminster to the royal conductors of fashion

A pair of Chinese shoes for bound 'lily' feet

Footwear

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A pair of Chinese shoes for bound 'lily' feet

A pair of Chinese shoes for bound 'lily' feet

A busy street corner with traders stopping for a tankard of beer and an artist painting a pub sign. Engraving by T. Cook, c. 1800, after W. Hogarth.

Appeal from the buckle trade of London and Westminster to the royal conductors of fashion

A pair of Chinese shoes for bound 'lily' feet

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