The manufacture of leather : being a description of all the processes for the tanning and tawing with bark, extracts, chrome and all modern tannages in genaral use, and the currying, finishing and dyeing of every kind of leather, including the various raw materials , the tools, machines, and all details of importance connected with an intelligent and profitable prosecution of the art, with special reference to the best American practice to which are added lists of American patents (1884-1987) for materials, processes, tools and machines, for tanning, currying, etc.