Report of the committee on leather for bookbinding / edited for The Society of Arts and the Worshipful Company of Leathersellers by the Rt. Hon. Viscount Cobham and Sir Henry Trueman Wood.

  • Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain)
Date:
1905
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Credit: Report of the committee on leather for bookbinding / edited for The Society of Arts and the Worshipful Company of Leathersellers by the Rt. Hon. Viscount Cobham and Sir Henry Trueman Wood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    LIST OF COLOURED PLATES. I. Frontispiece: Examples of binding in Morocco and Calf- executed WITHIN the last FIFTY YEARS. II. Deterioration of Sumach Persian Sheep III. Deterioration of Sumach Calf. IV, Deterioration of lightly detannised Persian Sheep. V. Deterioration of leather tanned with various tanning materials. VI. Effect of light and air on various samples of leather. VII. Effect of air and gas-light on various samples of leather. VIII. Effect of coloured lights on leather. IX. Photographic prints on leather, X. Effect of light on Sumach tanned leather dyed with various dye-stuffs. XI. Effect of light on various leathers dyed with various DYE-STUFFS.