The Leatherworker in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg / Being an Account of the Nature of Leather, & of the Crafts Commonly Engaged in the Making & Using of It.

by Thomas K. Ford

THE
LEATHERWORKER
in Eighteenth-Century
WILLIAMSBURG

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Being an Account of the Nature of Leather, & of the Crafts commonly engaged in the Making & Using of it.

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Williamsburg Craft Series

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WILLIAMSBURG
Published by Colonial Williamsburg
MCMLXXVIII

The Leatherworker
in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg

Once upon a time there lived in France a poet-bureaucrat by the name of Charles Perrault, who wrote fairy tales. He called one of them Cendrillon ou la Petite Pantoufle de Verre, and ever since 1697, for that was the date of Cinderella’s appearance in modern literature, her glass slippers have been a puzzle.