Leather Trades.

=PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE LEATHER INDUSTRY.= By A. M. VILLON.

Translated by FRANK T. ADDYMAN, B.Sc. (Lond.), F.I.C., F.C.S.; and Corrected by an Eminent Member of the Trade. 500 pp., royal 8vo. 1901. 123 Ill.u.s.trations. Price 21s.; India and Colonies, 22s.; Other Countries, 23s. 6d.; strictly net.

Contents.

Preface--Translator's Preface--List of Ill.u.s.trations.

Part I., =Materials used in Tanning=--Skins: Skin and its Structure; Skins used in Tanning; Various Skins and their Uses--Tannin and Tanning Substances: Tannin; Barks (Oak); Barks other than Oak; Tanning Woods; Tannin-bearing Leaves; Excrescences; Tan-bearing Fruits; Tan-bearing Roots and Bulbs; Tanning Juices; Tanning Substances used in Various Countries; Tannin Extracts; Estimation of Tannin and Tannin Principles.

Part II., =Tanning=--The Installation of a Tannery: Tan Furnaces; Chimneys, Boilers, etc.; Steam Engines--Grinding and Trituration of Tanning Substances: Cutting up Bark; Grinding Bark; The Grinding of Tan Woods; Powdering Fruit, Galls and Grains; Notes on the Grinding of Bark--Manufacture of Sole Leather: Soaking; Sweating and Unhairing; Plumping and Colouring; Handling; Tanning; Tanning Elephants' Hides; Drying; Striking or Pinning--Manufacture of Dressing Leather: Soaking; Depilation; New Processes for the Depilation of Skins; Tanning; Cow Hides; Horse Hides; Goat Skins; Manufacture of Split Hides--On Various Methods of Tanning: Mechanical Methods; Physical Methods; Chemical Methods; Tanning with Extracts--Quant.i.ty and Quality; Quant.i.ty; Net Cost; Quality of Leather--Various Manipulations of Tanned Leather: Second Tanning; Grease Stains; Bleaching Leather; Waterproofing Leather; Weighting Tanned Leather; Preservation of Leather--Tanning Various Skins.

Part III., =Currying=--Waxed Calf: Preparation; Shaving; Stretching or Slicking; Oiling the Grain; Oiling the Flesh Side; Whitening and Graining; Waxing; Finishing; Dry Finishing; Finishing in Colour; Cost--White Calf: Finishing in White--Cow Hide for Upper Leathers: Black Cow Hide; White Cow Hide; Coloured Cow Hide--Smooth Cow Hide--Black Leather--Miscellaneous Hides: Horse; Goat; Waxed Goat Skin; Matt Goat Skin--Russia Leather: Russia Leather; Artificial Russia Leather.

Part IV., =Enamelled, Hungary and Chamoy Leather, Morocco, Parchment, Furs and Artificial Leather=--Enamelled Leather: Varnish Manufacture; Application of the Enamel; Enamelling in Colour--Hungary Leather: Preliminary; Wet Work or Preparation; Aluming; Dressing or Loft Work; Tallowing; Hungary Leather from Various Hides--Tawing: Preparatory Operations; Dressing; Dyeing Tawed Skins; Rugs--Chamoy Leather--Morocco: Preliminary Operations, Morocco Tanning; Mordants used in Morocco Manufacture; Natural Colours used in Morocco Dyeing; Artificial Colours; Different Methods of Dyeing; Dyeing with Natural Colours; Dyeing with Aniline Colours; Dyeing with Metallic Salts; Leather Printing; Finishing Morocco; s.h.a.green; Bronzed Leather--Gilding and Silvering: Gilding; Silvering; Nickel and Cobalt--Parchment--Furs and Furriery: Preliminary Remarks; Indigenous Furs; Foreign Furs from Hot Countries; Foreign Furs from Cold Countries; Furs from Birds' Skins; Preparation of Furs; Dressing; Colouring; Preparation of Birds' Skins; Preservation of Furs--Artificial Leather: Leather made from Sc.r.a.ps; Compressed Leather; American Cloth; Papier Mache; Linoleum; Artificial Leather.

Part V., =Leather Testing and the Theory of Tanning=--Testing and a.n.a.lysis of Leather: Physical Testing of Tanned Leather; Chemical a.n.a.lysis--The Theory of Tanning and the other Operations of the Leather and Skin Industry: Theory of Soaking; Theory of Unhairing; Theory of Swelling; Theory of Handling; Theory of Tanning; Theory of the Action of Tannin on the Skin; Theory of Hungary Leather Making; Theory of Tawing; Theory of Chamoy Leather Making; Theory of Mineral Tanning.

Part VI., =Uses of Leather=--Machine Belts: Manufacture of Belting; Leather Chain Belts; Various Belts, Use of Belts--Boot and Shoe making: Boots and Shoes; Laces--Saddlery: Composition of a Saddle; Construction of a Saddle--Harness: The Pack Saddle; Harness--Military Equipment-- Glove Making--Carriage Building--Mechanical Uses.

Appendix, =The World's Commerce in Leather=--Europe; America; Asia; Africa; Australasia--Index.

=THE LEATHER WORKER'S MANUAL.= Being a Compendium of Practical Recipes and Working Formulae for Curriers, Bootmakers, Leather Dressers, Blacking Manufacturers, Saddlers, Fancy Leather Workers. By H. C. STANDAGE. 165 pp. 1900. Price 7s.

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Contents.

Blackings, Polishes, Glosses, Dressings, Renovators, etc., for Boot and Shoe Leather--Harness Blackings, Dressings, Greases, Compositions, Soaps, and Boot-top Powders and Liquids, etc., etc.--Leather Grinders'

Sundries--Currier's Seasonings, Blacking Compounds, Dressings, Finishes, Glosses, etc.--Dyes and Stains for Leather--Miscellaneous Information--Chrome Tannage--Index.

Books on Pottery, Bricks, Tiles, Gla.s.s, etc.

=THE MANUAL OF PRACTICAL POTTING.= Compiled by Experts, and Edited by CHAS. F. BINNS. Revised Third Edition and Enlarged. 200 pp. 1901. Price 17s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 18s. 6d.; Other Countries, 20s.; strictly net.

Contents.

=Introduction.= The Rise and Progress of the Potter's Art--=Bodies.= China and Porcelain Bodies, Parian Bodies, Semi-porcelain and Vitreous Bodies, Mortar Bodies, Earthenwares Granite and C.C. Bodies, Miscellaneous Bodies, Sagger and Crucible Clays, Coloured Bodies, Jasper Bodies, Coloured Bodies for Mosaic Painting, Encaustic Tile Bodies, Body Stains, Coloured Dips--=Glazes.= China Glazes, Ironstone Glazes, Earthenware Glazes, Glazes without Lead, Miscellaneous Glazes, Coloured Glazes, Majolica Colours--=Gold and Gold Colours.= Gold, Purple of Ca.s.sius, Marone and Ruby, Enamel Coloured Bases, Enamel Colour Fluxes, Enamel Colours, Mixed Enamel Colours, Antique and Vellum Enamel Colours, Underglaze Colours, Underglaze Colour Fluxes, Mixed Underglaze Colours, Flow Powders, Oils and Varnishes--=Means and Methods.= Reclamation of Waste Gold, The Use of Cobalt, Notes on Enamel Colours, Liquid or Bright Gold--=Cla.s.sification and a.n.a.lysis.= Cla.s.sification of Clay Ware, Lord Playfair's a.n.a.lysis of Clays, The Markets of the World, Time and Scale of Firing, Weights of Potter's Material, Decorated Goods Count--Comparative Loss of Weight of Clays--Ground Felspar Calculations --The Conversion of Slop Body Recipes into Dry Weight--The Cost of Prepared Earthenware Clay--=Forms and Tables.= Articles of Apprenticeship, Manufacturer's Guide to Stocktaking, Table of Relative Values of Potter's Materials, Hourly Wages Table, Workman's Settling Table, Comparative Guide for Earthenware and China Manufacturers in the use of Slop Flint and Slop Stone, Foreign Terms applied to Earthenware and China Goods, Table for the Conversion of Metrical Weights and Measures on the Continent and South America--=Index.=

=CERAMIC TECHNOLOGY=: Being some Aspects of Technical Science as Applied to Pottery Manufacture. Edited by CHARLES F.

BINNS. 100 pp. Demy 8vo. 1897. Price 12s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 13s. 6d.; Other Countries, 15s.; strictly net.

Contents.

Preface--The Chemistry of Pottery--a.n.a.lysis and Synthesis--Clays and their Components--The Biscuit Oven--Pyrometry--Glazes and their Composition--Colours and Colour-making--Index.

=COLOURING AND DECORATION OF CERAMIC WARE.= By ALEX.

BRONGNIART. With Notes and Additions by ALPHONSE SALVETAT.

Translated from the French. 200 pp. 1898. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.

=A TREATISE ON THE CERAMIC INDUSTRIES.= A Complete Manual for Pottery, Tile and Brick Works. By EMILE BOURRY. Translated from the French by WILTON P. RIX, Examiner in Pottery and Porcelain to the City and Guilds of London Technical Inst.i.tute, Pottery Instructor to the Hanley School Board.

Royal 8vo. 1901. Over 700 pp. Price 21s.; India and Colonies, 22s.; Other Countries, 23s. 6d.; strictly net.

Contents.

Part I., =General Pottery Methods=. Definition and History. Definitions and Cla.s.sification of Ceramic Products--Historic Summary of the Ceramic Art--Raw Materials of Bodies. Clays: Pure Clay and Natural Clays--Various Raw Materials: a.n.a.logous to Clay--Agglomerative and Agglutinative--Opening--Fusible--Refractory--Trials of Raw Materials --Plastic Bodies. Properties and Composition--Preparation of Raw Materials: Disaggregation--Purification--Preparation of Bodies: By Plastic Method--By Dry Method--By Liquid Method--Formation. Processes of Formation: Throwing--Expression--Moulding by Hand, on the Jolley, by Compression, by Slip Casting--Slapping--Slipping--Drying. Drying of Bodies--Processes of Drying: By Evaporation--By Aeration--By Heating--By Ventilation--By Absorption--Glazes. Composition and Properties--Raw Materials--Manufacture and Application--Firing.

Properties of the Bodies and Glazes during Firing--Description of the Kilns--Working of the Kilns--Decoration. Colouring Materials--Processes of Decoration.

Part II., =Special Pottery Methods=. Terra Cottas. Cla.s.sification: Plain Ordinary, Hollow, Ornamental, Vitrified, and Light Bricks--Ordinary and Black Tiles--Paving Tiles--Pipes--Architectural Terra Cottas--Vases, Statues and Decorative Objects--Common Pottery--Pottery for Water and Filters--Tobacco Pipes--l.u.s.tre Ware--Properties and Tests for Terra Cottas--Fireclay Goods. Cla.s.sification: Argillaceous, Aluminous, Carboniferous, Silicious and Basic Fireclay Goods--Fireclay Mortar (Pug)--Tests for Fireclay Goods--Faiences. Varnished Faiences--Enamelled Faiences--Silicious Faiences--Pipeclay Faiences--Pebble Work-- Feldspathic Faiences--Composition, Processes of Manufacture and General Arrangements of Faience Potteries--Stoneware. Stoneware Properly So-called: Paving Tiles--Pipes--Sanitary Ware--Stoneware for Food Purposes and Chemical Productions--Architectural Stoneware--Vases, Statues and other Decorative Objects--Fine Stoneware--Porcelain. Hard Porcelain for Table Ware and Decoration, for the Fire, for Electrical Conduits, for Mechanical Purposes; Architectural Porcelain, and Dull or Biscuit Porcelain--Soft Phosphated or English Porcelain--Soft Vitreous Porcelain, French and New Sevres--Argillaceous Soft or Seger's Porcelain--Dull Soft or Parian Porcelain--Dull Feldspathic Soft Porcelain--=Index.=

=ARCHITECTURAL POTTERY.= Bricks, Tiles, Pipes, Enamelled Terra-cottas, Ordinary and Incrusted Quarries, Stoneware Mosaics, Faences and Architectural Stoneware. By LEON LEFeVRE. With Five Plates. 950 Ill.u.s.trations in the Text, and numerous estimates. 500 pp., royal 8vo. 1900. Translated from the French by K. H. BIRD, M.A., and W. MOORE BINNS.

Price 15s.; India and Colonies, 16s.; Other Countries, 17s.

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Contents.

Part I. =Plain Undecorated Pottery.=--=Clays=: Cla.s.sification; General Properties and Composition; Working of Clay-Pits--Open Pits--Underground Pits. Preparation of the Clay. =Bricks=: Hand and Machine Moulding-- Expression Machines--Dies--Cutting-tables--General Remarks on the Choice of Machines--Types of Installations--Estimates--Plenishing, Hand and Steam Presses--Drying, by Exposure to Air, Without Shelter, and Under Sheds--Drying-rooms in Tiers, Closed Drying-rooms, in Tunnels, in Galleries--Detailed Estimates of the Various Drying-rooms, Comparison of Prices--Transport from the Machines to the Drying-rooms--Firing--In Clamps--In Intermittent Kilns--Continuous Kilns: with Solid Fuel: Round Kiln, Rectangular Kiln, Chimneys (Plans and Estimates)--With Gas Fuel, Fillard Kiln (Plans and Estimates), Water-gas Kiln--Heat Production of the Kilns; Dimensions, Shapes, Colours, Decoration, and Quality of Bricks--Hollow Bricks, Dimensions and Prices of Bricks, Various Shapes, Qualities--Use of Bricks--Walls, Arches, Pavements, Flues, Cornices-- Facing with Coloured Bricks--Bal.u.s.trades. =Tiles=: Manufacture-- Moulding, by Hand, by Machinery: Preparation of the Clay--Preparation of the Slabs, Transformation into Flat Tiles, into Jointed Tiles--Screw, Cam and Revolver Presses--Particulars of Tile-presses--Drying-- Planchettes, Shelves, Drying-barrows and Trucks--Firing--Divided Kilns--Installation of Mechanical Tileworks--Estimates; Shapes, Dimensions and Uses of the Princ.i.p.al Types of Tile--Ancient Tiles-- Foreign Tiles--Special Tiles--Ridge Tiles, Coping Tiles, Border Tiles, Frontons, Gutters, Antefixes, Membron, Angular--Roofing Accessories: Chimney-pots, Mitrons, Lanterns, Chimneys--Qualities of Tiles--Black Tiles--Stoneware Tiles--Particulars of Tiles. =Pipes=: Conduit Pipes-- Manufacture--Moulding: Horizontal Machines, Vertical Machines--Drying --Firing--=Chimney Flues=--Ventiducts and "Boisseaux," "Waggons"-- Particulars of these Products. Quarries: Plain Quarries of Ordinary Clay; of Cleaned Clay--Machines, Cutting, Mixing, Polishing--Drying and Firing--Applications--Particulars of Quarries. =Terra-cotta=: History--Manufacture--Application: Bal.u.s.trades, Columns, Pilasters, Capitals, Friezes, Frontons, Medallions, Panels, Rose-windows, Ceilings--Appendix: Official Methods of Testing Terra-cottas.

Part II. =Made-up or Decorated Pottery.=--General Remarks on the Decoration of Pottery: Dips--Glazes: Composition, Colouring, Preparation, Harmony with Pastes--Special Processes of Decoration-- Enamels, Opaque, Transparent, Colours, Underglaze, Over-glaze--Other Processes: Crackling, Mottled, Flashing, Metallic Iridescence, l.u.s.tres.

Glazed and Enamelled Bricks--History: Glazing--Enamelling--Applications: Ordinary Enamelled Bricks, Glazed Stoneware, Enamelled Stoneware-- Enamelled Tiles. Decorated Quarries: Paving Quarries--Decorated with Dips--Stoneware: Applications--Plain or Incrusted Stoneware; Manufacture --Application--Colouring, Manufacture, Moulding, Drying, Firing-- Applications--Facing Quarries--in Faence--of Glazed Stoneware--of Porcelain--Applications of Facing Quarries--Stove Quarries--Preparation of the Pastes, Moulding, Firing, Enamelling, Decoration--Applications-- Faences for Fireplaces. Architectural Decorated Pottery: Faences; Stoneware; Porcelain. Sanitary Pottery: Stoneware Pipes: Manufacture, Firing--Applications--Sinks--Applications--Urinals, Seats and Pans--Applications--Drinking-fountains, Washstands--Index.

=THE ART OF RIVETING GLa.s.s, CHINA AND EARTHENWARE.= By J.

HOWARTH. Second Edition. 1900. Paper Cover. Price 1s. net; by post, home or abroad, 1s. 1d.

=HOW TO a.n.a.lYSE CLAY.= Practical Methods for Practical Men. By HOLDEN M. ASHBY, Professor of Organic Chemistry, Harvey Medical College, U.S.A. Twenty Ill.u.s.trations. 1898. Price 2s. 6d.; Abroad, 3s.; strictly net.

=NOTES ON POTTERY CLAYS.= Their Distribution, Properties, Uses and a.n.a.lyses of Ball Clays, China Clays and China Stone. By JAS. FAIRIE, F.G.S. 1901. 132 pp. Crown 8vo. Price 3s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 4s.; Other Countries, 4s. 6d.; strictly net.

A Reissue of

=THE HISTORY OF THE STAFFORDSHIRE POTTERIES; AND THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF THE MANUFACTURE OF POTTERY AND PORCELAIN.= With References to Genuine Specimens, and Notices of Eminent Potters. By SIMEON SHAW. (Originally Published in 1829.) 265 pp. 1900. Demy 8vo. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.

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