This fascinating book contains a detailed treatise on the chemical aspects of leather tanning, detailing chrome tanning theory, its practical application, and chemical control. A must-have for serious leatherworkers, this antique text contains a wealth of scientific information pivotal to the proper application of chrome tanning. Chapters included within this book are: 'The Preparation of Technical Chrome Tanning Liquors', 'Some Factors in the One-bath Chrome Tanning Process', 'The Washing and Neutralising of Chrome Leather', 'Works Control in the Chrome Tannery', 'The Chemistry of Chromium Salts', and many more. This book has been elected for modern republication due to its educational value, and is proudly republished here complete with a new prefatory introduction to the subject.