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Celluloid. 



CELLULOID : Its Raw Material, Manufacture, Properties and 

 Uses. A Handbook for Manufacturers of Celluloid and Celluloid 

 Articles, and all Industries using Celluloid ; also for Dentists and 

 Teeth Specialists. By Dr. Fr. Bockmann, Technical Chemist. Trans- 

 lated from the Third Revised German Edition. Crown 8vo. 120 pp. 

 With 49 Illustrations. Price 5s. net. (Post free, 5s. 3d. home ; 5s. 4d. 

 abroad.) 



Contents. 



Chapters I., Raw Materialsfor the Manufacture of Celluloid : Cellulose and Pyroxylin. 

 — Gun-cotton — Properties of Gun-cotton — Special Gun-cottons for Celluloid Manufacture — 

 Nitrating Centrifugalisers— Collodion Wool — Methods of Preparing Collodion Wool — Cam- 

 phor — Japanese (Formosa) Camphor, O'dinary Camphor — Borneo Camphor (Borneol), 

 Sumatra Camphor, Camphol, Baros Camphor) — Properties of Camphor — Artificial Camphor 

 — Camphor Substitutes. 1 1„ The Manufacture of Celluloid; Manufacturing Camphor by 

 the Aid of Heat and Pressure — Manufacture of Celluloid by Dissolving Gun-cotton in an 

 Alcoholic Solution of Camphor — Preparing Celluloid by the Cold Process — Preparation with 

 an Ethereal Solution of Camphor — ^Preparation with a Solution of Camphor and Wood 

 Spirit. III., The Employment of Pyroxylin for Artificial Silk : Denitrating 

 and Colouring Pyroxylin — Uninflammable Celluloid — Celluloid and Cork Composition — 

 Incombustible Celluloid Substitute — Xylonite or Fibrolithoid. IV., Properties of 

 Celluloid, v., Testing Celluloid. VI., Application and Treatment of Celluloid: 

 Caoutchouc Industry — Making Celluloid Ornaments — Working by the Cold Process — 

 Working by the Warm Process — Celluloid Combs — Celluloid as a Basis for Artificial 

 Teeth — Stained Celluloid Sheets as a Substitute for Glass — Celluloid Printing Blocks 

 and Stamps — Collapsible Seamless Vessels of Celluloid — Making Celluloid Balls — Celluloid 

 Posters — Pressing Hollow Celluloid Articles — Casting Celluloid Articles — Method for Pro- 

 ducing Designs on Plates or Sheets of Celluloid. Xylonite, etc. — Imitation Tortoiseshell — 

 Metallic Incrustations — Imitation Florentine Mosaic — Celluloid Collars and Cuffs — Phono- 

 graph Cylinder Composition — Making Umbrella and Stick Handles of Celluloid — Celluloid 

 Dolls — Celluloid for Ships' Bottoms — Celluloid Pens— Colouring Finished Celluloid Articles — 

 Printing on Celluloid — Employment of Celluloid (and Pyroxylin)in Lacquer Varnishes — Index. 



Lithography, Printing and 



Engraving. 



PRACTICAL LITHOGRAPHY. By Alfred Seymour. 

 Demy 8vo. With Frontispiece and 33 Illus. 120 pp. Price 5s. 

 net. (Post free, 5s. 4d. home ; 5s. 6d. abroad.) 



Contents. 



Stones — Transfer Inks — Transfer Papers — Transfer Printing — Litho Press — Press Work — 

 Machine Printing — Colour Printmg — Substitutes for Lithographic Stones — Tin Plate Printing 

 and Decoration — Photo-Lithography. 



PRINTERS' AND STATIONERS' READY RECKONER 

 AND COMPENDIUM. Compiled by Victor Graham. 

 Crown 8vo. 112 pp. 1904. Price 3s. 6d. net. (Post free, 3s. 9d. home ; 

 3s. lOd. abroad.) 



Contents. 



Price of Paper per Sheet, Quire, Ream and Lb. — Cost of 100 to 1000 Sheets at various 

 Sizes and Prices per Ream — Cost of Cards — Quantity Table — Sizes and Weights of Paper, 

 Cards, etc. — Notes on Account Books — Discount Tables — Sizes of spaces — Leads to a lb. — 

 Dictionary — Measure for Bookwork — Correcting Proofs, etc. 



ENGRAVING FOR ILLUSTRATION. HISTORICAL 

 AND PRACTICAL NOTES. By J. Kirkbride. 72 pp. 

 Two Plates and 6 Illustrations. Crown 8vo. Price 2s. 6d. net. (Post 

 free, 2s. 9d. home ; 2s. lOd. abroad.) 



Bookbinding. 



PRACTICAL BOOKBINDING. By Paul Adam. Translated 

 from the German. Crown 8vo. 180 pp. 127 Illustrations. Price 5s. 

 net. (Post free, 5s. 4d. home ; 5s. 6d. abroad). 



