Description and condition:

Original black cloth hardback, gilt titles and motif, 8vo, xv 557 pp, 16pp publisher adverts, index, 200 wood engravings.

Good copy with chipping and loss to corners, spine ends and front edge of spine. FFEP has been removed, some age related browning around the page edges, else bright and crisp. Binding remains strong.

Contents:

The Arts of Tanning, Currying, and Leather-Dressing; Theoretically and Practically Considered in all their Details edited from the French of J. de Fontenelle and F. Malepeyre, with numerous emendations and additions, by Campbell Morfit.