Bulletin - United States National Museum . published at London-^ in 1764. English works werenot the only accounts of the trade, or necessarily the best, par-ticularly when compared with the Art du Tanneur, so fully de-scribed and illustrated by Jerome Lalande for Duhamels Descrip-tions des Arts et Metiers, or with Diderots encyclopedic coverage 18 Commons, ed., Docitmentarv History, vol. 2, p. 175, Description of the Province of South Carolinadrawn up at Charlestown in September, 1731. Force, compil., Tracts, no. 11, p. 7. 2° Advertisement of Broom, Hendrickson, and Summerl in Delaware Gazette
Bulletin - United States National Museum . published at London-^ in 1764. English works werenot the only accounts of the trade, or necessarily the best, par-ticularly when compared with the Art du Tanneur, so fully de-scribed and illustrated by Jerome Lalande for Duhamels Descrip-tions des Arts et Metiers, or with Diderots encyclopedic coverage 18 Commons, ed., Docitmentarv History, vol. 2, p. 175, Description of the Province of South Carolinadrawn up at Charlestown in September, 1731. Force, compil., Tracts, no. 11, p. 7. 2° Advertisement of Broom, Hendrickson, and Summerl in Delaware Gazette, Wilmington, October13, 1792. See also Hoover, Location Theory and the Shoe and Leather Industries, chapt. 8. 2 The 3rd edition, 1703. -2 Brief Directions How to Tan Leather according to the New Invention of the HonourableCharles Howard of Norfolk, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (1674), vol. 9, pp. 93-96. 23 New and Complete Dictionary of the Arts and Sciences; Comprehending all the Branches of UsefulKnowledge, 4 Figure 3.—^Art du Tanneur, 1764. The 18th centurys most definitive inves-tigation of the manufacture of leather was provided by Jerome Lalandes Artdu Tanneur, compiled for Duhamels Descriptions des Arts et Metiers. of the leather industry of mid-18th-century France-* (see fig. 3).Later, recognition of the tanner came from a growing numberof do-it-yourself books everywhere available before 1840. Some,like Edward Hazens Panorama of Professions and Trades., werewritten for the use of Schools and Families, conceivably tointerest children in careers as tanners, or in other useful few, like the Book of Trades., first published in America in 1807,were popular in scope, but the illustrations must have seemedlacking to anyone with a superficial knowledge of a special craft,even children -^ (see fig. 4). Others, however, were extremelyuseful and presented detailed texts that approached the level ofthe modern technical journal, if not in c
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