If anyone can loan me one of these books—I am in northern California, near San Francisco—I’d be glad to have it scanned and put online for all to have.
The original publication of Edwin Simpson’s sizing system
Hill and Yeoman’s A Manual of Boot and Shoe Manufacture
Here in the San Francisco Bay Area, I have decent local options both for non-destructive scanning, so I can send the original back unharmed, or destructive scanning, which often produces better scans, but at the cost of cutting off the book’s binding. That would obviously be up to the owner of the book.
These aren’t the only books I’m hunting. Not by far. But the others likely remain under copyright.
I am also hunting for a copy of the Swaysland book. In the meantime, I have a rather poorly done scan (the quality is good but the pages weren’t flattened to avoid harming the book, so I’m having to do a whole lot of adjustments). I’m in the middle of doing all that and hope to have it up on the website soon.
Apologies - I’m new here. Can you please ask your contacts at Haverhill to scan Brophy? I have had an exceptionally difficult time tracking an edition.
@AvM, welcome to the forum! And what a debut! Thank you so much for these.
Since the publication dates of these books appear to lie comfortably out of copyright, I have uploaded them to the Internet Archive, who provide free browsing and downloads: