The Principles of Leather Manufacture

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PLATE I.
THE PRINCIPLES OF Leather Manufacture
BY H. R. PROCTER, F.I.C. F.C.S.
PROFESSOR OF LEATHER INDUSTRIES AT THE YORKSHIRE COLLEGE, LEEDS; PAST PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LEATHER TRADES CHEMISTS
London: E. & F. N. SPON, Limited, 125 STRAND
New York: SPON & CHAMBERLAIN, 123 LIBERTY STREET
1903
Dedicated to PROFESSOR F. L. KNAPP GEHEIMEN HOFRATH, DR. PHIL. AND DR. ING. THE PIONEER OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH IN LEATHER MANUFACTURE
The origin of the present work was an attempt to prepare a second edition of the little Text-Book of Tanning which the Author published in 1885, and which has been long out of print. Though persevered in for years, the work was never brought to completion, partly owing to the constant pressure of other duties, but still more to the rapid advances which have been made in our knowledge of the subject, and in the scientific thought which has been devoted to it. For his share in the initiation of this work, much credit is due to Wilhelm Eitner, Director of the Imperial Royal Research Institute for Leather Industries in Vienna, but the advance he began has been energetically carried forward not only in Vienna, but in the Tanning Schools and Research Institutes of Freiberg, Leeds, London, Liège, Copenhagen, Berlin and elsewhere, and to a less extent in private laboratories.
Under the pressure of this rapid growth, as it was impossible to complete the work as a whole, the Author published an instalment dealing with the purely chemical side of the subject in 1898, under the title of the ‘Leather Industries Laboratory Book’; which has been translated into German, French and Italian, and of which the English edition is rapidly approaching exhaustion.