=Introductory Chapter= showing the position of the Pottery Trade at the present time (1899)--=Preliminary Remarks=--=The Potteries=, comprising Tunstall, Brownhills, Greenfield and New Field, Golden Hill, Latebrook, Green Lane, Burslem, Longport and Dale Hall, Hot Lane and Cobridge, Hanley and Shelton, Etruria, Stoke, Penkhull, Fenton, Lane Delph, Foley, Lane End--=On the Origin of the Art=, and its Practice among the early Nations--=Manufacture of Pottery=, prior to 1700--=The Introduction of Red Porcelain= by Messrs. Elers, of Bradwell, 1690--=Progress of the Manufacture= from 1700 to Mr. Wedgwood"s commencement in 1760-- =Introduction of Fluid Glaze=--Extension of the Manufacture of Cream Colour--Mr. Wedgwood"s Queen"s Ware--Jasper, and Appointment of Potter to Her Majesty--Black Printing--=Introduction of Porcelain.= Mr.
W. Littler"s Porcelain--Mr. Cookworthy"s Discovery of Kaolin and Petuntse, and Patent--Sold to Mr. Champion--resold to the New Hall Com.--Extension of Term--=Blue Printed Pottery.= Mr. Turner, Mr. Spode (1), Mr. Baddeley, Mr. Spode (2), Messrs. Turner, Mr. Wood, Mr. Wilson, Mr. Minton--Great Change in Patterns of Blue Printed--=Introduction of l.u.s.tre Pottery.= Improvements in Pottery and Porcelain subsequent to 1800.
A Reissue of
=THE CHEMISTRY OF THE SEVERAL NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL HETEROGENEOUS COMPOUNDS USED IN MANUFACTURING PORCELAIN, GLa.s.s AND POTTERY.= By SIMEON SHAW. (Originally published in 1837.) 750 pp. 1900. Royal 8vo. Price 14s.; India and Colonies, 15s.; Other Countries, 16s. 6d.; strictly net.
Contents.
PART I., a.n.a.lYSIS AND MATERIALS.--=Introduction=: Laboratory and Apparatus; =Elements=--=Temperature=--=Acids and Alkalies=--=The Earths=--=Metals=.
PART II., SYNTHESIS AND COMPOUNDS.--=Science of Mixing=--=Bodies=: Porcelain--Hard, Porcelain--Fritted Bodies, Porcelain--Raw Bodies, Porcelain--Soft, Fritted Bodies, Raw Bodies, Stone Bodies, Ironstone, Dry Bodies, Chemical Utensils, Fritted Jasper, Fritted Pearl, Fritted Drab, Raw Chemical Utensils, Raw Stone, Raw Jasper, Raw Pearl, Raw Mortar, Raw Drab, Raw Brown, Raw Fawn, Raw Cane, Raw Red Porous, Raw Egyptian, Earthenware, Queen"s Ware, Cream Colour, Blue and Fancy Printed, Dipped and Mocha, Chalky, Rings, Stilts, etc.--=Glazes=: Porcelain--Hard Fritted Porcelain--Soft Fritted Porcelain--Soft Raw, Cream Colour Porcelain, Blue Printed Porcelain, Fritted Glazes, a.n.a.lysis of Fritt, a.n.a.lysis of Glaze, Coloured Glazes, Dips, Smears and Washes; =Gla.s.ses=: Flint Gla.s.s, Coloured Gla.s.ses, Artificial Garnet, Artificial Emerald, Artificial Amethyst, Artificial Sapphire, Artificial Opal, Plate Gla.s.s, Crown Gla.s.s, Broad Gla.s.s, Bottle Gla.s.s, Phosphoric Gla.s.s, British Steel Gla.s.s, Gla.s.s-Staining and Painting, Engraving on Gla.s.s, Dr. Faraday"s Experiments--=Colours=: Colour Making, Fluxes or Solvents, Components of the Colours; =Reds, etc., from Gold=, Carmine or Rose Colour, Purple, Reds, etc., from Iron, Blues, Yellows, Greens, Blacks, White, Silver for Burnishing, Gold for Burnishing, Printer"s Oil, l.u.s.tres.
TABLES OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES.
Gla.s.sware, Gla.s.s Staining and Painting.
=RECIPES FOR FLINT GLa.s.s MAKING.= By a British Gla.s.s Master and Mixer. Sixty Recipes. Being Leaves from the Mixing Book of several experts in the Flint Gla.s.s Trade, containing up-to-date recipes and valuable information as to Crystal, Demi-crystal and Coloured Gla.s.s in its many varieties. It contains the recipes for cheap metal suited to pressing, blowing, etc., as well as the most costly crystal and ruby.
Price for United Kingdom, 10s. 6d.; Abroad, 15s.; United States, $4; strictly net.
Contents.
Ruby--Ruby from Copper--Flint for using with the Ruby for Coating--A German Metal--Cornelian, or Alabaster--Sapphire Blue--Crysophis--Opal --Turquoise Blue--Gold Colour--Dark Green--Green (common)--Green for Malachite--Blue for Malachite--Black for Malachite--Black--Common Canary Batch--Canary--White Opaque Gla.s.s--Sealing-wax Red--Flint--Flint Gla.s.s (Crystal and Demi)--Achromatic Gla.s.s--Paste Gla.s.s--White Enamel --Firestone--Dead White (for moons)--White Agate--Canary--Canary Enamel --Index.
=A TREATISE ON THE ART OF GLa.s.s PAINTING.= Prefaced with a Review of Ancient Gla.s.s. By ERNEST R. SUFFLING. With One Coloured Plate and Thirty-seven Ill.u.s.trations. Demy 8vo. 140 pp. 1902. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d. net.
Contents.
A Short History of Stained Gla.s.s--Designing Scale Drawings--Cartoons and the Cut Line--Various Kinds of Gla.s.s Cutting for Windows--The Colours and Brushes used in Gla.s.s Painting--Painting on Gla.s.s, Dispersed Patterns--Diapered Patterns--Aciding--Firing--Fret Lead Glazing--Index.
=PAINTING ON GLa.s.s AND PORCELAIN AND ENAMEL PAINTING.= A Complete Introduction to the Preparation of all the Colours and Fluxes used for Painting on Porcelain, Enamel, Faence and Stoneware, the Coloured Pastes and Coloured Gla.s.ses, together with a Minute Description of the Firing of Colours and Enamels. By FELIX HERMANN, Technical Chemist. With Eighteen Ill.u.s.trations. 300 pp. Translated from the German second and enlarged Edition. 1897. Price 10s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 11s.; Other Countries, 12s.; strictly net.
Contents.
History of Gla.s.s Painting--The Articles to be Painted: Gla.s.s, Porcelain, Enamel, Stoneware, Faence--Pigments: Metallic Pigments: Antimony Oxide, Naples Yellow, Barium Chromate, Lead Chromate, Silver Chloride, Chromic Oxide--Fluxes: Fluxes, Felspar, Quartz, Purifying Quartz, Sedimentation, Quenching, Borax, Boracic Acid, Pota.s.sium and Sodium Carbonates, Rocaille Flux--Preparation of the Colours for Gla.s.s Painting--The Colour Pastes--The Coloured Gla.s.ses--Composition of the Porcelain Colours--The Enamel Colours: Enamels for Artistic Work-- Metallic Ornamentation: Porcelain Gilding, Gla.s.s Gilding--Firing the Colours: Remarks on Firing: Firing Colours on Gla.s.s, Firing Colours on Porcelain: The m.u.f.fle--Accidents occasionally Supervening during the Process of Firing--Remarks on the Different Methods of Painting on Gla.s.s, Porcelain, etc.--Appendix: Cleaning Old Gla.s.s Paintings.
Paper Staining.
=THE DYEING OF PAPER PULP.= A Practical Treatise for the use of Papermakers, Paperstainers, Students and others. By Julius Erfurt, Manager of a Paper Mill. Translated into English and Edited with Additions by JULIUS HuBNER, F.C.S., Lecturer on Papermaking at the Manchester Munic.i.p.al Technical School. With Ill.u.s.trations and =157 patterns of paper dyed in the pulp=. Royal 8vo, 180 pp. 1901. Price 15s.; India and Colonies. 16s.; Other Countries, 20s.; strictly net. Limited edition.
Contents.
=Behaviour of the Paper Fibres during the Process of Dyeing, Theory of the Mordant=--=Colour Fixing Mediums= (=Mordants=)--=Influence of the Quality of the Water Used=--=Inorganic Colours=--=Organic Colours=-- =Practical Application of the Coal Tar Colours according to their Properties and their Behaviour towards the Different Paper Fibres=-- =Dyed Patterns on Various Pulp Mixtures=--=Dyeing to Shade=--Index.
Enamelling on Metal.
=ENAMELS AND ENAMELLING.= For Enamel Makers, Workers in Gold and Silver, and Manufacturers of Objects of Art. By PAUL RANDAU. Translated from the German. With Sixteen Ill.u.s.trations. 180 pp. 1900. Price 10s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 11s.; Other Countries, 12s.; strictly net.
Contents.
Composition and Properties of Gla.s.s--Raw Materials for the Manufacture of Enamels--Substances Added to Produce Opacity--Fluxes--Pigments-- Decolorising Agents--Testing the Raw Materials with the Blow-pipe Flame--Subsidiary Materials--Preparing the Materials for Enamel Making--Mixing the Materials--The Preparation of Technical Enamels, The Enamel Ma.s.s--Appliances for Smelting the Enamel Ma.s.s--Smelting the Charge--Composition of Enamel Ma.s.ses--Composition of Ma.s.ses for Ground Enamels--Composition of Cover Enamels--Preparing the Articles for Enamelling--Applying the Enamel--Firing the Ground Enamel--Applying and Firing the Cover Enamel or Glaze--Repairing Defects in Enamelled Ware--Enamelling Articles of Sheet Metal--Decorating Enamelled Ware-- Specialities in Enamelling--Dial-plate Enamelling--Enamels for Artistic Purposes, Recipes for Enamels of Various Colours--Index.
=THE ART OF ENAMELLING ON METAL.= By W. NORMAN BROWN.
Twenty-eight Ill.u.s.trations. Crown 8vo. 60 pp. 1900. Price 2s. 6d.; Abroad, 3s.; strictly net.
Silk Manufacture.
=SILK THROWING AND WASTE SILK SPINNING.= By HOLLINS RAYNER.
Demy 8vo. 130 Ill.u.s.trations.
[_In the press._
Contents.
The Silkworm--Coc.o.o.n Reeling and Qualities of Silk--Silk Throwing--Silk Wastes--The Preparation of Silk Waste for Degumming--Silk Waste Degumming, Schapping and Discharging--The Opening and Dressing of Wastes--Silk Waste "Drawing" or "Preparing" Machinery--Long Spinning-- Short Spinning--Spinning and Finishing Processes--Utilisation of Waste Products--Noil Spinning--Exhaust Noil Spinning.
Books on Textile and Dyeing Subjects.
=THE CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY OF TEXTILE FIBRES=: Their Origin, Structure, Preparation, Washing, Bleaching, Dyeing, Printing and Dressing. By Dr. GEORG VON GEORGIEVICS. Translated from the German by CHARLES SALTER. 320 pp. Forty-seven Ill.u.s.trations. Royal 8vo. 1902. Price 10s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 11s.; Other Countries, 12s. net.
Contents.
=The Textile Fibres=--Artificial Fibres--Mineral Fibres--Vegetable Fibres--Cellulose--Cotton--Bombax Cotton--Vegetable Silk--Flax--Hemp --Jute--Ramie, Rhea, China Gra.s.s, Nettle Fibre--Distinguishing Tests for the Various Fibres--Animal Fibres: Silk--Animal Hairs--Sheep"s Wool--Goat Wool and Camel Wool--Artificial Wool (Wool Subst.i.tutes)-- Conditioning--=Washing, Bleaching, Carbonising=--Bleaching Agents-- Cotton Bleaching--Linen Bleaching--Jute Bleaching--Hemp Bleaching-- Ramie Bleaching--Scouring and Bleaching Silk--Washing and Bleaching Wool--Blueing or White Dyeing--Carbonising--=Mordants and Mordanting= --=Dyeing=--Combination of Colours: Dyeing to Pattern--Theory of Dyeing --Cla.s.sification of Dye Stuffs: Methods of Dyeing--Application of Acid Dye Stuffs--Application of Basic Dye Stuffs--Application of Direct or Substantive Cotton Dyes--Application of the Mordant Dyes--Application of the Developing Dyes--Dyeing on a Manufacturing Scale: Selection of Dye Stuffs for Dyeing--Silk Dyeing--Wool Dyeing--Cotton Dyeing--Dyeing Mixed Fabrics--Sample Dyeings, Colorimetric Determinations, Reactions of Dye Stuffs on the Fibre, Tests for Fastness--=Printing=--Hand Printing--Calico Printing: Reproduction of Pattern by Direct Printing: Thickening Agents--Employment of Mordant Dye Stuffs, Basic, Alb.u.min, Direct, Developing, Vat, Acid--Treatment of the Goods when Printed-- Combined Printing and Dyeing--Discharge Style Printing--Reserve Style Printing--Topping Printing--Wool Printing--Silk Printing--Printing Yarns, Warps, and Combed Sliver--=Dressing and Finishing=--Dressing and Finishing--Substances used in Finishing--Loading Ingredients-- Colouring for the Dressing Preparations--Metals or their Sulphites-- Waterproofing--Fireproofing--Antiseptics for Prevention of Mould-- Application of Dressings--Drying--Stretching--Finishing: Shearing, Damping, Calendering, Beetling, Moire or Watered Effects, Stamping-- Finishing Woollens--Index.
=POWER-LOOM WEAVING AND YARN NUMBERING=, According to Various Systems, with Conversion Tables. Translated from the German of ANTHON GRUNER. =With Twenty-six Diagrams in Colours.= 150 pp. 1900. Crown 8vo. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.