Something About Leather Being A Collection Of Entertaining Facts Not Commonly Known Concerning Various Skins Also What Is Made Of Them With A Very Brief Sketch Of The History Of Tanning PDF Download

Excerpt from Something About Leather: Being a Collection of Entertaining Facts Not Commonly Known Concerning Various Skins Also What Is Made of Them With a Very Brief Sketch of the History of Tanning Somehow people associate certain ideas of mental capacity with certain trades, not because there is any adequate reason for it, to be sure, but from long usage. Why it should be considered eminently respectable to be a brewer, but quite out of the question to be an hotel keeper, is rather beyond the understanding of the ordinary intelligence, or even, so for as I have been able to find out, of the extraordinary intelligence. Among the trades which have had the misfortune to fall especially under the ban of society at all times, are those of the soap maker and the tanner. Now, in my mind, the making of soap is one of the noblest of all occupations. 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.