Excerpt from Hides and Skins: From the Animal's Back to the Tannery Door This volume is issued in response to a demand for information in respect to hides and skins. Articles bear ing on this subject appear from time to time in the trade press, but, as far as our observations go, there is no bound compilation of data on this important department of the leather industry. It has often been said that the literature of tanning is not extensive. If this be so, it may be declared that there is a very decided necessity for a book dealing with hides and skins in their raw state. In this volume it is aimed to deal with the raw material of tanning from the animal's back to the tannery door. Thus it will be seen that we end our discussions where the tanning books begin them. It would seem that the manufacture of leather is of suth cient importance to justify the publication of many works on hides and skins alone. This volume may be considered a pioneer in that it breaks practically new ground. There are no books extant from which we could gather information supplementing them with matter of our own, as is usually the procedure in com piling a new work on a well-worn subject. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.