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A History of the County of Oxford
… and clear stream, and the purity of the water tempted the leather-dressers to carry on their industry in the city of … of cloth was done at home in the middle ages, so, too, leather-dressing under one form or another was a by-product … of Oxfordshire. Anthony Wood shows most clearly that the leather industry was a very considerable one in this county …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… printed books had at first a very sober covering of plain leather, calf or deerskin, and sometimes of parchment. The covers were wooden boards and the backs were of leather, which was also drawn wholly or partly over the … produced in quite a different way, either in cut or tooled leather. Where the printer was his own binder his device or …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… extended from the north end of Gray's Inn Lane, across Leather Lane, to Hatton Garden. The business was established …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… of the 18th century. William Felton, coach-maker, of 36, Leather Lane, Holborn, in his Treatise on Carriages, …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… a stove for drying. The art of dyeing textile fabrics and leather had been practised from an early period in different … made a denizen in 1533. In the same reign several foreign leather dyers settled in or near London, and James Tybault, … out letters of denization in 1544, describes himself as 'a leather dyer after the Spanish dyeing.' He had been then …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… tongue of holly through which crowquills or points of hard leather were passed to touch the string when the jack was in … This was done by substituting for the quills formerly used leather-covered hammers to strike the strings. By this means …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… to have produced, in 1790, paper of various qualities from leather cuttings and refuse paper. 13 Other inventions for …
The inhabitants of London in 1638
… south end of the said hall 20 The Sealers' warehouse for leather at the east end of the sd. hall 6 Robert Wilson for a …
Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, Volume 4, Edward I