Books
Below is a list of books referenced in the Glossary and Timeline. (the numbers might not all be correct). I believe that nearly all will be available In the Library at the University of Northampton, UK. Quite a lot of the University books are now held in the Museum of Leathercraft (National Leather Centre) in the Grosvenor Centre where access is free but by appointment (contact details on their website). Increasingly the older books are to be found on line free of charge as pdfs, having been scanned by Google or others. Books referred to in the Booth section are also to be found here since quite a few overlap. They are marked with an asterisk*
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 Association 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. Dussau, cePhiladelphia, London 1865 (easily found as a pdf on line)
11. Hides and Skins John R Arnold, A.W.Shaw Company 1925
12. Practical Tanning Allen Rogers Henry Carey Baird & Co., Inc. New York, 1922 (This book was part of the library of E.Morley Wilson of Barrow Hepburn, an important mentor and good friend to my family and me in my early career. It was kindly given to me by Mrs. Wilson.)
13. Clarkson L.A. The Organisation of the English Leather Industry in the Late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
14. The British Leather Industry and Foreign Competition, 1870-1914 R.A.Church
15. Two Years Before the Mast, Richard Henry Dana, Jr 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
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 (2004-no longer working in 2015 so let me know if you can find it: it was good material)
23. Watt, A., The Art of Leather Manufacture, 1885, Crosby Lockwood & Co., London
24. Lamb, M.C., Leather Dressing including Dyeing, Staining and Finishing, 1st edition, 1905, Anglo American Technical Co., London
23. Thomson, R.S., Chrome Tanning in the Nineteenth Century, J.Soc. Leather Technologists and Chemists, 1985 69 93
24. Thomson, R.S., The English Leather Industry 1790-1900: The Case of Bevingtons of Bermondsey, J.Soc. Leather Technologists and Chemists, 1991 75 85
25. Thomson, R.S., Bookbinding Leather: Yesterday, Today and Perhaps Tomorrow, J.Soc. Leather Technologists and Chemists, 2001 85 66
26. Thomson, R., Alum in the Leather Industry, J. Soc. Leather Technologists and Chemists, 2009 93125
27. Constable, Olivia Remie. Trade and Traders in Muslim Spain: The Commercial Realignment of the Iberian Peninsula, 900-1500, Cambridge University Press, 1994.
28. Ron Reed, Science for Students of Leather Technology, Pergamon, 1966
29. Shoe and Leather Reporter, Dec 25, 1937, p120-123
30. Duncan Crow, A man of push and go. The Life of John Macaulay Booth*. 1965
31. Belinda Norman-Butler, Victorian Aspirations; the Life and Labour of Charles and Mary Booth*, Allen & Unwin, 1972
32. Margaret Booth, An Amazon Andes Tour*, EDWARD ARNOLD, LONDON. 1910 (tee pdf to be found on line)
33. Frank W. Norcross. A History of the New York Swamp*, Chiswick Press, New York 1901
34. Joseph Turney Wood, The Puering, Bating & Drenching of Skins, E.&F.N.Spon London 1912
35. T.S.Simey and M.B.Simey, Charles Booth Social Scientis*t, Oxford University Press, 1960
36 Beatrice Webb, My Apprenticeship-1, and -2* Published as two separate books in Penguin 1938 (Part 2 is heavily focused on her work with Charles Booth )
37. Beatrice Webb, Diaries 1924-1932*, Longmans, Green & Co, 1956
38 Beatrice Webb, The Diary of Beatrice Webb, Volume Two 1892-1905, All the Good Things in Life* Edited by Norman and Jeanne MacKenzie (comments at length about her falling out with Mary Booth over her marriage, and thus being distanced from the Booths for a long period)
39. 50 Years of Synthetic Tannins, BASF Undated, but obtained by me in 1966