The Manufacture of Leather: Descriptions of the Methods of Tanning and Tawing, with Special Reference to the Best American Practice. By Charles Thomas Davis. xxxii, 680, 32 pp.Illustrated by One Hundred and Forty-Seven Engravings and Fourteen Samples of Quebracho Tanned and Aniline Dyed Leathers.8vo., 230 x 140 mm, bound in publisher’s dark green pebbled cloth.Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird & Co., 1897.
Second Edition.A fine copy of this detailed compendium on American leather manufacturing including 14 colourful leather samples.This second edition appears 12 years after the first, necessitated by the swift advances in dying chemistry in both the United States and Germany at the end of the nineteenth century.An fine copy.
