Old Boots, boot-cleaner of Ripon, Yorkshire, 1692-1762

Old Boots, boot-cleaner of Ripon, Yorkshire, 1692-1762. Famous for being able to hold a coin between nose and chin. Shown holding a boot-jack and slippers. Old Boots, a well-known character at Rippon in Yorkshire. Lithograph after a stipple engraving by Robert Cooper from Henry Wilson and James Caulfield's Book of Wonderful Characters, Memoirs and Anecdotes, of Remarkable and Eccentric Persons in all ages and countries, John Camden Hotten, Piccadilly, London, 1869

18th Century 19th Century Book Of Wonderful Characters Buckle Shoes Coin Deformed Eccentric Extraordinary Freak Henry Wilson James Caulfield John Camden Hotten Memoirs And Anecdotes Piccadilly Polisher Remarkable Ripon Robert Cooper Slippers Stipple Engraving

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