(London, England: Guild of Women-Binders), n.d., but circa 1900. 12mo. cloth, front cover silver-stamped. 87+(1) pages. First edition, limited to roughly 3,000 copies (Tidcombe, p. 126). Cover title: A Souvenir of the St. James's Theatre. Attributed to the Guild of Women-Binders, organized in May 1898 by London bookseller Frank Karslake more as a business venture than as a guild in the traditional sense of that word. He abandoned this effort in 1904. This work traces.....
New York: National Aniline & Chemical Company, Inc, n.d. (circa 1930s). 8vo. cloth. Frontispiece; (vi), xxvii pages. Exlibrary copy. Else a near fine copy. Short text describing methods of dyeing, preparation of the leather for dyeing and Color Matching formulas and dyeings. Accompanied by 69 actual leather samples mounted on heavy paper pages demonstrating Basic Dyes (16 samples), Acid Dyes (15 samples), Direct Dyes (8 samples) all on Chrome Tanned Calfskin Ooze; 13 samples dyed.....