Chapter I: Front Matter

LEATHER FOR LIBRARIES.

BY

E. WYNDHAM HULME, J. GORDON PARKER,
A. SEYMOUR-JONES, CYRIL DAVENPORT,
AND
F. J. WILLIAMSON

LONDON:
Published for the Sound Leather Committee of the
Library Association
by
THE LIBRARY SUPPLY Co.,
Bridge House, 181, Queen Victoria Street, E.C.

1905.

LIBRARY ASSOCIATION.

CONSTITUTION OF THE SOUND LEATHER
COMMITTEE.

CYRIL DAVENPORT, _British Museum Library_.

J. P. EDMOND, _Signet Library, Edinburgh_.

DR. J. GORDON PARKER, _London Leather Industries Laboratory,
Bermondsey_.

E. WYNDHAM HULME, _Patent Office Library_. (_Hon. Secretary._)

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.
Page
History of Sumach Tanning in England, Degradation of
the Manufacture of Leather, and History of the Reform
Movement. By E. WYNDHAM HULME 5

CHAPTER II.
The Causes of Decay in Bookbinding Leathers. By
J. GORDON PARKER 15

CHAPTER III.

Provenance, Characteristics, and Values of Modern
Bookbinding Leathers. By A. SEYMOUR-JONES 29

CHAPTER IV.
The Repairing and Binding of Books for Public Libraries.
By CYRIL DAVENPORT 39

CHAPTER V.
Specification for the Fittings of a Small Bindery. By
F. J. WILLIAMSON 51

INDEX 55

_The Bancroft Library_
University of California · Berkeley

THE ROGER LEVENSON
MEMORIAL FUND

CHAPTER I.

History of Sumach Tanning
in England, Degradation of the
Manufacture of Leather, and History
of the Reform Movement.

BY

E. WYNDHAM HULME.