[Illustration: (1.) GOAT.] [Illustration: (2.) SEAL (BOLD GRAIN).] [Illustration: (3.) SEAL (FINE GRAIN).] 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. CHAPTER I.