PAINTS, COLOURS, ETC— continiied. 

 THE MANUFACTURE OF MINERAL AND LAKE 

 PIGMENTS. Containing Directions for the Manufacture 

 of all Artificial, Artists and Painters' Colours, Enamel, Soot and Me- 

 tallic Pigments. A Text-book for Manufacturers, Merchants, Artists 

 and Painters. By Dr. Josef Bersch, Translated by A. C. Wright, 

 M.A. (Oxon.), B.Sc. (Lond.), Forty-three Illustrations. 476 pp., demy 

 8vo. Price 12s. 6d. net. (Post free, 13s. home ; 13s. 6d. abroad.) 



RECIPES FOR THE COLOUR, PAINT, VARNISH, OIL, 

 SOAP AND DRYSALTERY TRADES. Compiled by 

 An Analytical Chemist. New Revised and Enlarged Edition. 

 Demy 8vo. 350 pp. Price lOi Od. net. (Post free, lis. home; lis. 3d. 

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OIL COLOURS AND PRINTERS' INKS. By Louis 

 Edgar Andes. Translated from the German. 215 pp. Crown 8vo. 

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Contents. 



Linseed Oil — Poppy Oil — Mechanical Purification of Linseed Oil — Chemical Purification of 

 Linseed Oil — Bleaching Linseed Oil — Oxidizing Agents for Boiling Linseed Oil — Theory of 

 Oil Boiling — Manufacture of Boiled Oil — Adulterations of Boiled Oil — ■ Chinese Drj'ing Oil and 

 Other Specialities — Pigments for House and Artistic Painting and Inks — Pigment for 

 Printers' Black Inks — Substitutes for Lampblack — Machinery for Colour Grinding and 

 Rubbing — Machines for mixing Pigments with the Vehicle — Paint Mills — Manufacture of 

 House Oil Paints — Ship Paints— Luminous Paint — Artists' Colours — Prmters' Inks: — 

 VEHICLES— Printers' Inks :— PIGMENTS and MANUFACTURE- Index. 



MODERN PRINTING INKS. A Practical Handbook for 

 Printing Ink Manufacturers and Prmters. By Alfred Seymour. 

 Demy 8vo. Six Illustrations. 90 pages. Price 5s. net. (Post free, 

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Contents. 



Introduction.— Division of Labour — A Separate Industry — Choice of Materials — Skilful 

 Maripulation — Some Important Factors — The Medium — Ink and Colour Mixing — A Justihc- 

 tion. Linseed Oil. — Extraction of the Oil — ClassiKcation — Mechanical Purification — 

 Adulteration — Boiled Oil— Preparation of Boiled Oil — An Alternative Process. Varnish. — 

 A Vehicle and Essential Component — A Reference to Lithography — Baltic Oil — Preparation 

 of Varnish — The Modern Method — An Old Argument — Letterpress Varnish — A Cheaper 

 Medium — A Suggestive Recipe — Fire Risks — Gradations of V'arnish. Dry Colours. — A 

 Recommendation — An Endless Variety of Materials — Earth Colours— Mineral Colours — 

 Substrates — Toning Earth Colours — Physical Characteristics — Colouring Power — Brilliance — 

 Purity of Tone — Permanence. Dry Colours— Blacks, Whites, Yellows — Lampblack- 

 Process of ^Manufacture — Calcinati m — Carbon Black — Acetylene Black — A Simple Test — Lead 

 and Zinc Whites — White Earth Colours — Yellows — Yellow Ochres — Mineral Yellows. Dry 

 Colours — Reds, Browns. — Classification of Reds — Genuine Vermilions — Preparation — 

 Imitation Vermilions — Umber, Raw and Burnt — Sienna, Raw and Burnt. Blues, Greens. — 

 Ultramarine Blue — A Useful Tint — Other Similar Blues — Cobalt Blues — Prussian— Cninese 

 and Bronze Blues — A Test for Purity — Greens — Compound Greens— Mine ral Greens. Lakes. 

 — Characteristics — Lake Derivatives — A Point of Importance — Red Lakes — Madder — 

 Cochineal and Carmine — Brazil Wood — Alizarine a Coaltar Derivative — Yellow Lakes — Blue 

 Lakes— Green Lakes. The Grinding of Printing Inks. — Ink-grinding Machinery — Ink- 

 grinding Mill — A Novel Machine — Hand Grinding — Treatment of Gritty Colours— A Question 

 of Proportion— Approximate Calculation — Soap — Saturation — Friction Heat — Consistent 

 Grinding. Ink and Colour Mixing. — A Necessary Acquisition— Ink Mixing Defined— Mixed 

 Green Inks — Mixed Brown Inks — Tints — Ink Mixing — Lithographic Inks — Characteristics of 

 Yellows — Mixing V'ermilion — Ultramarine and Other Blues — Bronze, Prussian and Chinese 

 Blues — Working Consistency — Reducing Medium — Letterpress Inks — Gloss Inks — Three- 

 colour Inks — Ink-mixing Machine. The Characteristics of Some Prnting Processes. — 

 A Supplementary Discussion — Letterpress Inks — Three-colour Printing — Lithographic Printing 

 Inks — An Important Feature — Suggestive Points — Tinplate Printing. Driers. — A Valuable 

 Auxiliary — Energetic Drying Inks — The Theory of Drying — Liquid Driers — Terebene — Paste 

 Driers — Letterpress Driers — Powder Driers — Turpentine as a Drier. Bronze Powders and 

 Bronzing. — A Brief Justification — Bronze Printing Inks — Bronze Powders — The Process of 

 Manufacture — Preparation of the Leaf— Grinding and Grading — Bronzing Mediums — Requisite 

 Qualities — Wax Varnish. "Things Worth Knowing." — A Record of Notes and 

 Experiences — Index. 



{See also Writing Inks, p. ii.) 



THREE HUNDRED SHADES AND HOW TO MIX 

 THEM. For Architects, Decorators and Painters. 



{See page 28.) 



