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Learn all about leather work in the classic
sense, with this collection of vintage leatherworking books. We
are also including books on bookbinding and over 40 sample
leather patterns for wallets, checkbooks, and more!
This collection on DVD
contains 114 books + over 40
leather patterns, all in PDF format.
Please note that this collection contains scans of old books, some
of which were in poor condition before being rescued and digitized for
posterity. This means that you may see some pages with creases
and tears that show up in the scans.
Publications List:
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A Complete Guide To The Ornamental Leather Work
(1890) – By J. Revell – 100 Pages |
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A History Of Furniture With Chapters On Tapestry, Oriental
Embroidery And Leatherwork,
1907 – By B. Palliser – 495 Pages |
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A Manual Of Shoemaking And Leather And Rubber Products
(1912), By William Dooley, 365 Pages |
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A New Complete Treatise On The Arts Of Tanning. Currying, And
Leather Dressing,
1865 – By H. Dussauce – 738 Pages |
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A Practical Treatise On Friction, Lubrication, Fats And Oils,
Including The Manufacture Of Lubricating Oils, Leather Oils,
Paint Oils, Solid Lubricants And Greases, Modes Of Testing Oils,
And The Application Of Lubricants
(1916), By Emil Dietrerichs, 180
Pages |
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Cowie's Bookbinder's Manual, Containing A Full Description Of
Leather And Vellum Binding,
(1860) , By G. Cowie, 149 Pages |
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English Of Leather Making
(1919) – 49 Pages |
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Fabrikoid An Improvement On Leather
(1911) – By Fabrikoid Works – 23 Pages |
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Facts Worth Knowing About Leather, Boots, And Shoes
(1872), By JH Walker, 19 Pages |
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Hides & Skins And The Manufacture Leather,
1921 – By J. P. Warbug – 86 Pages |
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Hides And Skins From The Animal's Back To The Tannery Door
(1912), 308 Pages |
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Historical Carvings In Leather
(1940) - Maddox, W. - 373 Pages |
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Leather Chemists Pocket-Book A Short Compendium Of Analytical
(1912) – By Prof. H. R. Procter – 244 Pages |
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Leather Dressing, Including Dyeing, Staining And Finishing
(1907), By M.C Lamb, 491 Pages |
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Leather For Libraries
(1905) – By E. Wyndhan Hulme, J.
Gordon Parker, A. Seymour-Jones, Cyril Davenport, And F.J.
Willaimson – 82 Pages |
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Leather Hides Skin Tanning Material
(1924), By EC Snow, 410 Pages |
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Leather In The Decorative Arts
(1950), The Cooper Union Museum,
24 Pages |
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Leather Industries Labratory Book On Analytical And Experimental
Methods
(1908) By H. R. Procter, M.Sc.
F.I.C. F.C.S., 491 Pages |
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Leather Investigations The Composition Of Some Sole Leathers
(1913), By FP Veitch, 26 Pages |
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Leather Manufacture A Practical Handbook Of Tanning, Currying,
And Chrome Leather Dressing
(1906) - Watt, Alexander - 573
Pages |
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Leather Manufacture, A Treatise On The Practical Workings Of The
Leather Manufacture
(1891) – By John W. Stevens – 266
Pages |
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Leather Trades Chemistry; A Practical Manual On The Analysis Of
Materials And Finished Products
(1908) - Samuel Russell Trotman -
310 Pages |
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Leather Work
(1908) - Wilson, Winifred H.;
Willcox, Marshall Bidwell - 67 Pages |
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Leather Work A Practical Manual For Learners,
1892 – By Charles G. Leland – 113 Pages |
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Leather Work,
1915, By Adelaide Mickel, 58
Pages |
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Leather Work,
By Walton East, 43 Pages |
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Leather Working With Numerous Engravings And Diagrams
(1904) – By Paul N. Hasluck – 168 Pages |
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Leathercraft,
By Chris H. Groneman, 163 Pages |
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Manufacture Of Leather
(1922) - Rogers, Allen - 155
Pages |
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Modern American Tanning A Practical Treatise On The Manufacture
Of Leather,
1902 – 303 Pages |
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Practical Tanning; A Handbook Of Modern Practice And Processes
As Applied In The Manufacture Of Leather And Allied Products
(1922), By Allen Rogers, 739 Pages |
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Puering, Bating & Drenching Of Skins
(1912), By Joseph Wood, 339 Pages |
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Report Of The Committee On Leather For Bookbinding
(1905), 142 Pages |
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Revell's Complete Guide To The Ornamental Leather Work
- 100 Pages |
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Roycroft Leather-Book Being A Catalog Of Beautiful Leathern
Things Made Roycroftie By Hand By Roycroft Artists.
(1909) - 48 Pages |
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Shoe & Leather Encyclopedia,
1911 – By Shoe & Leather Gazette – 132 Pages |
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Something About Leather
(1897) – By Lee Allyne – 99 Pages |
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Sun And Saddle Leather
(c1917), By Charles Clark, 81
Pages |
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The Application Of Oils And Greases To Leather
1919 – By J.R. Blockey – 128 Pages |
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The Art Of Tanning Leather
(1857) – By David H. Kennedy –
271 Pages |
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The Decoration Of Leather
(1905) – By Maude Nathan – 148
Pages |
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The Leather Goods Department
(1917) - Lehmann, Mary Augusta - 192 Pages |
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The Leather Manufacture In The United States; A Dissertation On
The Methods And Economies Of Tanning
(1876), By Jackson Schultz, 376 Pages |
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The Leather Specimen Book
(1917) - La Croix, Frederic
William - 25 Pages |
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The Leather Work Book Containing Full Instructions For Making
,
By Roasa Baughan, 97 Pages |
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The Leather Worker's Journal
(1909) - 556 Pages |
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The Leathercraftsman; A Textbook On Leatherwork,
By
W. E. Snyder, 182 Pages |
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The Making Of Leather (1914) –
By Henry R. Procter – 175 Pages |
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The Manufacture Of Leather (1920) –
By
Hugh Garner Bennett – 450 Pages |
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The Manufacture Of Leather Being A Description Of All Of The
Processes For The Tanning, Tawing, Currying, Finishing (1885),
By
Charles Thomas, 907 Pages |
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The Manufacture Of Lubricants, Shoe Polishes And Leather
Dressings. Instructions For The Preparation Of All Kinds Of
Lubricants, Such As Axle And Machinery Greases, Oils For
Lubricating Sewing Machines And Other Working Machinery, Mineral
Lubricating Oils, Clockmakers' Oils, As Well As Shoe Polishes,
Leather Varnishes, Dressings For All Kinds Of Leather And
DéGras
(1906), By Richard Brunner, 220
Pages |
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The Practical Upholsterer Giving Clear Directions For
Skillfully Performing All Kinds Of Upholsteres' Work In Leather,
Silk, Plush, Reps, Cottons, Velvets, And Carpetings ... Fully
Illustrated With Engravings Of Tools, Sketches Of Furniture, And
Numerous Full-Page Illustrations Of Original Decorative Designs
(1891). 140 Pages |
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The Principles Of Leather Manufacture
(1903) – By H. R. Procter – 543 Pages |
Also including our bookbinding
library collection:
Bookbinding
And Its Auxiliary Branches, By John
Pleger, 1914, 102 pages
Bookbinding as a Handwork Subject: Being a Full Explanation of how Books
can be Bound With Simple Apparatus in a School Classroom,
By J. Halliday, 1915, 79 pages
Bookbinding Fine Art Mechanical Art and Manufacture ,
by H. Wheatley, 1882, 58 pages
Bookbinding for Amateurs: Being Description of The Various Tools and
Appliances Required and Minute Instructions for Their Effective Use,
By W. J. E. Crane, 1885, 225 pages
Bookbinding for Beginners, By
Florence O. Bean & John C. Brodhead, 1918, 106 pages
Bookbinding for Bibliophiles: Being Notes on Some Technical Features of
the Well Bound Book for the Aid of Connoisseurs,
By Fletcher Battershall, 1905, 148 pages
Bookbinding in England and France,
By W. Y. Fletcher, 1897, 179 pages
Bookbinding With Numerous Engravings and Diagrams,
By Paul N. Hasluck, 1907, 163 pages
Bookbinding, and the Care of Books: A Handbook for Amateurs Bookbinders
& Librarians, By Douglas Cockerell,
1920, 356 pages
Catalogue of Ornamental Leather Bookbinding Executed in America Prior to
1850, By The Grolier Club, 1907, 128
pages
Catalogue Raisonnee: Works on Bookbinding Practical and Historical
Examples of Booking of the XVIth to XIXth Centuries,
By Columbia University Library, 1903, 124 pages
Commercial Bookbinding: A Description of the Processes and the Various
Machines Used, By Geo. A. Stephen,
1910, 84 pages
Cowie’s Bookbinder’s Manual: Containing a Full Description of Leather
and Vellum Binding; Directions for Gilding of Paper and Book-Edges; and
Numerous Valuable Recipes for Sprinkling, Colouring, and Marbling;
Together with a Scale of Bookbinder Charges; A List of all the Book and
Vellum Binders in London, By William
Strange, 1860, 149 pages
Early America Bookbinding and Kindred Subjects,
by W. Andrews, 1902, 28 pages
Encyclopedia of Literary and Typographical Anecdote,
By C. H. Timperley, 1842, 1,160 pages
English Embroidered Bookbindings, By
Cyril Davenport, 1899, 261 pages
Example of the Art of Book-Binding,
By Bernard Quaritch, 1897, 219 pages
Exhibition of Silver Embroidered and Curious Bookbindings,
By The Grolier Club of the City of New York, 1903,
102 pages
Historical Essay on the Art of Bookbinding,
By H. P. Du Bois, 1883, 50 pages
Leather For Libraries, By E. Wyndham
Hulme, J. Gordon Parker, A. Seymour-Jones, Cyril Davenport and F.J.
Williamson, 1905, 81 pages
Library Bookbinding, By Arthur L.
Bailey, 1916, 259 pages
Manual of Library Bookbinding: Practical and Historical,
By Henry T. Coutts, 1911, 312 pages
Mending and Repair of Books, by M.
Brown, 1916, 28 pages
Modern Book Bindings & Their Designers,
By E. Wood, 1900, 116 pages
Modern Bookbinding, By William
Matthews, 1889, 118 pages
Modern Bookbindings: Their Design and Decoration,
By S.T. Prideaux, 1906, 221 pages
Notes on Bookbinding for Libraries,
By John Cotton Dana, 1910, 184 pages
Papers on Bookbinding, By William C.
Hollands, 1922, 70 pages
Practical Bookbinding, By Paul Adam,
1903, 230 pages
Practical Bookbinding: A Text-book intended for those who take up the
Art of Bookbinding, and designed to give sufficient help to enable handy
persons to Bind their Books and Periodicals,
By W.B. Pearce, 1908, 140 pages
Printing and Bookbinding for Schools,
By S. J. Vaugn, 1912, 160 pages
Printing And Writing Materials, Their Evolution,
By A. Smith, 1901, 301 pages
Report of the Committee on Leather For Bookbinding,
By The Rt. Hon. Viscount Cobhan & Sir Henry Trueman
Wood, 1905, 139 pages
Royal English Bookbindings, By Cyril
Davenport, 1896, 109 pages
Specimens of Linotype, Monotype, and Hand Type in use in the Book
Composing Room of the Trow Directory, Printing and Bookbinding Company,
By Trow Directory, Printing and Bookbinding
Company, 1905, 206 pages
The Art of Bookbinding A Practical Treatise,
By Joseph W. Zaehnsdorf, 1890, 259 pages
The Binding of Books: An Essay in the History of Gold-Tooled Buildings,
By Herbert P. Horne, 1915, 270 pages
The Book, Its History And Development,
By C. Davenport, 1907, 281 pages
The Book: Its Printers, Illustrators, and Binders, From Gutennberg to
the Present Time, By Henry Bouchot,
1890, 405 pages
The Bookbinders Manual A Full Description of Leather and Vellum Binding,
by Cowie, 1860, 149 pages
The Book-Collector, By W. Carew
Hazlitt, 1904, 371 pages
The Hand-Book of Taste in Bookbinding,
By E. Churton, 1800, 42 pages
The Making Of A Book, by Methodist
Book Concern, 1915, 39 pages
The Printed Book, By Harry G. Aldis,
1916, 186 pages
The Printer’s Dictionary of Technical Terms,
By A.A. Stewart, 1912, 389 pages
The Printers’ Handbook of Trade Recipes, Hints, and Suggestions Relating
to Letterpress and Lithographic Printing Bookbinding, Stationery
Engaving, etc., By Charles Thomas
Jacobi, 1891, 384 pages
The Spencer Collection of Modern Book Bindings,
By W. Eames, 1914, 55 pages
Women in the Bookbinding Trade, By
Mary Van Kleeck, 1913, 326 pages
Works on Bookbinding, Practical and Historical: Examples of Bookbindings,
By Columbia University, 1903, 115 pages
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