Category: History - British
The section of the leather trade to which this Handbook relates is that concerned in the manufacture of light leathers tanned with a pale tannage preparatory to being dyed. Bark and most other vegetable tanning substances leave a colour on the skin which cannot be removed with...
Why do modern leather bindings decay? Is it possible to obtain a leather for bookbinding purposes as good and as durable as the leather produced from the 16th to 18th century? T...
15. CHAPTER V.The following practical hints may be found useful when repairs are required to books in libraries. It is, however, necessary that the librarian or his assistants should gain som...
13. CHAPTER IV.What with bad paper and bad leather, the librarian of the present is confronted with two serious problems. In spite of the Society of Arts' adverse criticism in 1898, much paper...
11. CHAPTER III.To correctly locate the sources of skin supply suitable for bookbinding is not easy, in consequence of original breeds having been transplanted to equally suitable climes over t...
7. CHAPTER I.The section of the leather trade to which this Handbook relates is that concerned in the manufacture of light leathers tanned with a pale tannage preparatory to being dyed. Bark...
5. CHAPTER V.1. CHAPTER I.6. CHAPTER I.4. CHAPTER IV.2. CHAPTER II.3. CHAPTER III.12. CHAPTER IV.14. CHAPTER V.8. CHAPTER II.10. CHAPTER III.