Description: hardcover, 25.2 x 19.2 cm, 8vo, dark blue cloth, gilt lettering in a frame to cover and gilt lettering to spine; captured leather samples pasted to front and back pastedowns, grey endpapers, colour frontispiece, 10 colour plates, multiple in-text b/w illustrations.

Collation: a₁ blank, a₂ h.t./imprint, colour frontis. pasted in, a₃ t.p./blank, a₄ committee/blank; b², (no A), B-H⁸, I⁵ (10 leaves H₁ – I₂ with colour plates pasted in, I₅ colophon/blank); pagination starts at B₂: [1] 2-120 [2]; total a⁴ b² B-H⁸ I⁵ =67 leaves, 11 colour plates, incl. frontispiece.

Title-page: REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE | ON | LEATHER FOR BOOKBINDING. | EDITED FOR | THE SOCIETY OF ARTS | AND | THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF LEATHERSELLERS | BY | THE RT. HON. VISCOUNT COBHAM | CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE | AND | SIR HENRY TRUEMAN WOOD, M.A. | SECRETARY OF THE SOCIETY | LONDON : | PUBLISHED FOR THE SOCIETY OF ARTS | BY GEORGE BELL & SONS, | YORK HOUSE, PORTUGAL STREET, W.C. | — | 1905 ||

Contributors:

Authors:

Society of Arts (Great Britain)

Charles George Lyttleton Cobham (British, 1842 – 1922)

Henry Trueman Wood (British, 1879 – 1917), Secretary of the Royal Society of Arts (1879–1917).

Leathersellers’ Company

George Bell & Sons – publisher.

William Clowes and Sons – printer.