Books

Below is a list of books referenced in the Glossary and Timeline.

  Title Author Publisher/Date
1. Leather Industry A Glossary of the Main terms and Processes   Issued by ICI (Dyestuffs Group (undated but probably 1948)
2. The Mistery or Art of the Leathersellers of the City of London   Undated
3. History of Technology Leather John W. Waterer Singer and Holmyard. Undated
4. The Tanner Leonard Fisher Published by Godine 1986
5. Report to the Leeds Associtain of the Leather Trade on Leather Manufacture in the United States H.R. Procter 1894
6. Leathercraft in the Lands of Ancient Persia Sylvia A. Matheson Published by Colomer Munmany, SA.
7. A Liverpool Merchant House, being the history of Alfred Booth and Company 1863-1958 A.H. John Published by George Allen & Unwin 1959
8. The Principles of Leather Manufacture Prof H.R Procter London, 1922
9. The Manufacture of Leather (quoted from 7 above) C.T. Davis  
10. A New and Complete Treatise on the Arts of Tanning, Currying, and Leather-Dressing; comprising all the discoveries and improvements made in France, Great Britain, and the United States. Prof. H. Dussauce Philadelphia, London 1865
11. Hides and Skins John R Arnold A.W.Shaw Company 1925
12. Practical Tanning
This book was part of the library of E.Morley Wilson an important mentor and good friend to my family and me in my early career. It was kindly lent to me by Mrs. Wilson.		 Allen Rogers Henry Carey Baird & Co., Inc. New York, 1922
13 "The Organisation of the English Leather Industry in the Late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries" L.A. Clarkson  
14. The British Leather Industry and Foreign Competition, 1870-1914 R.A. Church  
15. Two Years Before the Mast, Richard Henry Dana, Jr A Signet Classic, 1964. First published around 1840.
16. The London Encyclopaedia
(For information on the Guilds and the Bermondsey Leather Market)		 Edited by Ben Weinreb and Christopher Hibbert Macmillan 1987
17. The Museum of Leathercraft. John W. Waterer Reprint of the article in the Tudor volume of the Connoisseur Period Guides, 1956 Leather
18. Richardson's Leather Works. The Workers' Story.   Elswick Local Group, 1985
19. A Brief History of One of Great Britain's Leading Tanneries E and J Richardson Undated.
Promotional booklet undated
20. From Hide to Sole C.H. Spiers National Trade Press, London 1944
21. The Science of Tanning   Nottingham Journal Trade Supplement, January13th, 1922
22. Koninklijke Bibliotheek, National Library of the Nederlands www.konbib.nl.kb/cons/leather/chapter1.htm