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#Contents.#

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

#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 Institute, Pottery Instructor to the Hanley
School Board. Royal 8vo. 760 pp. 323 Illustrations. Price 21s. net.
(Post free, 22s. home; 24s. abroad.)

#Contents.#

Part I., #General Pottery Methods.# Definition and History. Definitions
and Classification of Ceramic Products -- Historic Summary of the
Ceramic Art -- Raw Materials of Bodies. Clays: Pure Clay and Natural
Clays -- Various Raw Materials: Analogous 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. Classification: 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 -- Lustre Ware -- Properties
and Tests for Terra Cottas--Fireclay Goods. Classification:
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
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