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THE PRINCIPLES
OF
LEATHER MANUFACTURE
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
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PREFACE.
The origin of the present work was an attempt to preparea second edition of the little Text-Book of Tanning whichthe Author published in 1885, and which has been long out ofprint. Though persevered in for years, the work was neverbrought to completion, partly owing to the constant pressure ofother duties, but still more to the rapid advances which havebeen made in our knowledge of the subject, and in the scientificthought which has been devoted to it. For his share in theinitiation of this work, much credit is due to Wilhelm Eitner,Director of the Imperial Royal Research Institute for LeatherIndustries in Vienna, but the advance he began has beenenergetically carried forward not only in Vienna, but in theTanning Schools and Research Institutes of Freiberg, Leeds,London, Liège, Copenhagen, Berlin and elsewhere, and to aless extent in private laboratories.
Under the pressure of this rapid growth, as it was impossibleto complete the work as a whole, the Author publishedan instalment dealing with the purely chemical side ofthe subject in 1898, under the title of the ‘Leather IndustriesLaboratory Book’; which has been translated into German,French and Italian, and of which the English edition is rapidlyapproaching exhaustion.
The present work, which should by ri