Publication on leather and fur

Archetype Publications is pleased to announce the publication of the
title 'Leather & Fur : Aspects of Medieval Trade & Technology'
edited by Esther Cameron (1998  ISBN 1873132514  102pp. Price:16.50
pounds /ca. $26.50)

This book, the proceedings of a symposium, held in Oxford in
September 1995 and organised by the Archaeological Leather Group

    Roy Thomson. Leather Working Processes

    Arthur MacGregor. Hides, Horns and Bones: Animals and
    Interdependent Industries in the Early Urban Context

    Gale R. Owen-Crocker. The Search for Anglo-Saxon Skin Garments
    and the Documentary Evidence

    Esther Cameron. Pre-conquest Leather on English Book-bindings,
    Arms and Armour, AD400-1100

    Veronique Montembault. The Leather Finds from Rouen and
    Saint-Denis, France

    James Howard-Johnston. Trading in Fur from Classical Antiquity
    to the Early Middle Ages

    Bengt Wigh. Animal Bones from the Viking Town of Birka, Sweden

    James A. Spriggs. The British Beaver - Fur, Fact and Fantasy

    This edition is produced in paperback, 102 pp. with 29
    illustrations.

Available from  Archetype Publications (address below) at the
introductory price of 16.50 pounds sterling plus postage (UK : 3.50
pounds;  Europe: 2.50 pounds (surface)/3.00 pounds by air; USA 2.50
pounds (surface) / 5.00 pounds by air). Payment by visa or
mastercard is preferred

    Archetype Publications
    6 Fitzroy Square, London W1P 6DX
    +44 171 380 0800
    Fax +44 171 380 0500;
    archetype [at] netmatters__co__uk

The Archetype catalogue of conservation titles in print (October
1997) is available upon request from the same address.

James Black
Director
Archetype Books
6, Fitzroy Square, London W1P 6DX
+44 171380 0800
Fax 44-171-380 0500

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