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The Leather & Leather Making book collection is a great resource for people interested in the art and technique of working with leather as it was practiced from the late-1800s to the early 20th century. The 24 books in this collection are a fascinating treasure trove of leather history, creation techniques, leather working techniques, tools and patterns and much more. This is a must have collection for anyone who cherishes working with leather by hand to produce remarkable and beautiful products.

All the titles contained on this CD are listed below.

1. Leather work (1908) - Wilson, Winifred H.; Willcox, Marshall Bidwell - 70 pages
2. The art of tanning leather (1857) - Kennedy, David H - 276 pages
3. Leather working (1904) - Hasluck, Paul N. (Paul Nooncree) - 168 pages
4. The Leather Worker's Journal (1916) - 246 pages
5. The leather specimen book (1917) - La Croix, Frederic William - 30 pages
6. Shoe and leather encyclopedia; (1911) - 132 pages
7. Leather for libraries (1905) - Hulme, E. Wyndham (Edward Wyndham) - 84 pages
8. Manufacture of leather (1922) - Rogers, Allen - 160 pages
9. The leather goods department (1917) - Lehmann, Mary Augusta - 195 pages
10. Something about leather; (1897) - Allyne, Lee - 106 pages
11. English of leather making; (1919) - Quimby, George F.; Paull, Charles H. - 52 pages
12. Historical Carvings(1940) - Maddox, W. - 375 pages
13. The making of leather (1914) - Procter, H. R. (Henry Richardson) - 180 pages
14. The decoration of leather (1905) - Recy, Georges de; Nathan, Maude - 151 pages
15. The principles of leather manufacture (1922) - Procter, H. R. (Henry Richardson) - 706 pages
16. Leather manufacture : a practical handbook of tanning, currying, and chrome leather dressing (1906) - Watt, Alexander - 576 pages
17. The application of Oils and Grease to Leather (1919) - J R Blockey - 131 pages
18. A new and complete treatise on the arts of tanning, currying, and leather-dressing; comprising all the discoveries and improvements made in France, Great Britain, and the United States (1865) - Dussauce, Hippolyte - 744 pages
19. Leather chemists' pocket-book, a short compendium of analytical methods (1912) - Procter, H. R. (Henry Richardson); Stiasny, Edmund; Brumwell, Harold - 248 pages
20. Revell's complete guide to the ornamental leather work - 104 pages
21. Leather manufacture : a treatise on the practical workings of the leather manufacture : including oil shoe grain, imitation goat and calf ..., together with numerous valuable recipes ... (1890) - Stevens, John W - 280 pages
22. Leather trades chemistry; a practical manual on the analysis of materials and finished products (1908) - Samuel Russell Trotman - 314 pages
23. Roycroft leather-book : being a catalog of beautiful leathern things made Roycroftie by hand by Roycroft artists. (1909) - 51 pages
24. The manufacture of leather: being a description of all of the processes for the tanning and tawing with bark, extracts, chrome and all modern tannages in general use .. (1897) - David, Charles Thoma - 762 pages

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