📚 Leatherwork

Hide into goods: tanning and making, from saddlery and bags to the binding of books.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject leather in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Fabric facts	Dorothy A. Ettl	1980	9
	Animal proteins	Hugh Garner Bennett	1921	8
	The preservation of leather bookbindings	H. J. Plenderleith	1946	8
	Tanning chemistry	Anthony D. Covington	2009	7
	The manufacture of leather	Hugh Garner Bennett	1909	5
	The chemistry of leather manufacture	John Arthur Wilson	1923	5
	Practical leather technology	Thomas C. Thorstensen	1969	5
	The manufacture of leather	Charles Thomas Davis	1885	4
	Leather Dressing	M. C. Lamb	1907	4
	The chemistry and technology of leather	Fred O'Flaherty	1956	4
	Faux Real	Robert Kanigel	2007	4
	The arts of tanning, currying, and leather dressing	Julia de Fontenelle	1852	3
	Leather manufacture	John W. Stevens	1890	3
	Leather investigations	F. P. Veitch	1913	3
	A study of the changes in skins during their conversion into leather	Anton Augustus Schlichte	1915	3
	Home tanning and leather making guide	Albert Burton Farnham	1922	3
	Modern practice in leather manufacture	John Arthur Wilson	1941	3
	Leather craftsmanship	John William Waterer	1950	3
	Gerbereichemie und Gerbereitechnologie	Fritz Stather	1951	3
	Skin, hide and leather defects	Jean J. Tancous	1959	3
	Untersuchungen zur Verbesserung der Herstellungsverfahren und der Eigenschaften technischer Leder	Hans Herfeld	1970	3
	Leather technician's handbook	J. H. Sharphouse	1971	3
	Wilson's Eureka tanning process, for general and domestic use, which comprises all the art of tanning	Unknown author	1871	2
	Leather	K. J. Adcock	1900	2
	The Principles of Leather Manufacture	H. R. Procter	1903	2
	Leather manufacture	Alexander Watt	1906	2
	Die Qualitätsbeurteilung von Leder, Lederaustauschwerkstoffen und Lederbehandlungsmitteln	Hans Herfeld	1950	2
	Official methods of analysis	Society of Leather Trades' Chemists.	1951	2
	Step-by-step brain tanning the Sioux way	Larry Belitz	1973	2
	Leather facts	New England Tanners Club	1983	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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