This antique text comprises a comprehensive and practical manual for
aspiring students of leatherworking, complete with many illustrations
and original designs by the author. A wonderfully detailed and helpful
guide for beginners and intermediate leatherworkers, this book is a
must-read for the discerning student and is well deserving of a place in
any collection of antiquarian leatherworking literature. Chapters
contained herein include: 'Tools and Materials'; 'Outlining with Tracer
or Wheel, and Indenting or Grounding'; 'Outlining Relief by Undercutting
and Stuffing'; 'Working up in Relief of Moulding with Tools'; 'Moulding,
Stamping and Working in Cuir-Bouilli of Soft Leather'; 'Modelling in
Cardboard or Fret-Sawed Moulds'... and many more. We are proud to
republish this text here complete with a new prefatory introduction on
the subject.