The Arts Of Tanning Currying And Leather Dressing Theoretically And Practically Considered In

by Campbell Morfit And

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First edition

Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird, 1852. First edition, large 8vo, pp. 5 , vi-xv, 2 , 18-557, 3 , 16 ads; lithographic portrait frontispiece; illustrated with 200 wood engravings in the text; original blind-stamped brown cloth with a gilt vignette of a man washing a hide; gilt spine lettering with an illustration of a man tawing leather; front free endpaper torn with 3½ x 2½ piece missing; cloth of front joint splitting near head; spine

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