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Edited by SIR H. TRUEMAN WOOD.

A Series of Technical Manuals for the use of Workmen and others practically interested in the Industrial Arts, and specially adapted for Candidates in the Examinations of the City Guilds Institute.

Illustrated and uniformly printed in small post 8vo.

DYEING AND TISSUE-PRINTING. By William Crookes, F.R.S., V.P.C.S. 5s.

"Whether viewed in connection with the examination room or the dye-house, the volume is one which deserves a work of welcome." - Academy.

"The only previous qualification of which the student is assumed to be possessed is an elementary knowledge of chemistry such as may be acquired from almost any of the rudimentary treatises on that science. The author, building upon this foundation, seeks to explain the principles of the art from a practical rather than from a theoretical point of view. From the very outset he endeavours to explain everything with which the learner might be puzzled." - Chemical News.

GLASS MANUFACTURE. Introductory Essay by H. J. Powell, B.A. (Whitefriars Glass Works); Crown and Sheet Glass, by Henry Chance, M.A. (Chance Bros., Birmingham); Plate Glass, by H. G. Harris, Assoc. Memb. Inst. C.E.

COTTON SPINNING: Its Development, Principles, and Practice. With an Appendix on Steam Engines and Boilers. By R. Marsden, Editor of the "Textile Manufacturer," and Examiner for the City and Guilds of London Institute. Fourth Edition. 6s. 6d.

Contents

Introductory - Cotton - The Mill - Manipulation of the Material - Carding and Combing - Drawing, Stubbing, and Roving - Development of Spinning - The Modern System of Spinning - The Modern Mule - Throstle and Ring Spinning; Doubling - Miscellanea - Appendix.

"An admirable work on the subject." - Manchester Examiner and Times.

" Practical spinners, of whom Mr. Marsden is evidently one, will value this volume as a handbook, and learners will find the fullest information given with the greatest possible clearness." - Manchester Courier.

COTTON WEAVING. By R. Marsden, Examiner to the City and Guilds of London Institute, Author of "Cotton Spinning." With numerous illustrations. [In preparation.

COAL-TAR COLOURS, The Chemistry of. With special reference to their application to Dyeing, etc. By Dr. R. Bene-DIKT, Professor of Chemistry in the University of Vienna. Translated from the German by E. Knecht, Ph.D., Head Master of the Chemistry and Dyeing Department in the Technical College, Bradford. 2nd Edition, Revised and Enlarged. 6s. 6d.

"The original work is popular in Germany, and the translation ought to be equally appreciated here, not only by students of organic chemistry, but by all who are practically concerned in the dyeing and printing of textile fabrics." - The Athena-urn.

"The volume contains, in a little space, a vast amount of most useful information classified in such a manner as to show clearly and distinctly the chief characteristics of each colouring matter, and the relationship existing between one series of compounds and another." - Journal of the Society of Dyers and Colourists.

WOOLLEN AND WORSTED CLOTH MANUFAC-TURE. By Professor Robkrts Beaumont, Textile Industries Department of the Yorkshire College, Leeds. Second Edition, Revised. 7s. 6d.

Contents

Materials - Woollen Thread Manufacture - Worsted Thread Construction - Yarns and Fancy Twist Threads - Loom-Mounting, or Preparation of the Yarns for the Loom - The Principles of Cloth Construction - Fundamental Weaves - Hand Looms - Power Looms - Weave-Combinations - Dralting - Pattern Design - Colour applied to Twilled and Fancy Weaves - Backed and Double Cloths - Analysis of Cloths and Calculations - Cloth Finishing.

"The book is a satisfactory and instructive addition to the Messieurs Bell's excellent technical series." - Manchester Guardian.

" It should be studied and inwardly digested by every student of the textile arts."- Textile Recorder,

"A valuable contribution to technological literature." - Irish Textile Journal.

" The latest addition to the admirable series of technological handbooks in course of publication by Messrs Bell and Sons is a most valuable work, and will take at once a very high place among technical manuals." - British Journal of Commerce.

PRINTING. A Practical Treatise on the Art of Typography as applied more particularly to the Printing of Books. By C. T. Jacobi, Manager of the Chiswick Press; Examiner in Typography to the City and Guilds of London Institute. With upwards of 150 Illustrations, many useful Tables, and Glossarial Index of Technical Terms and Phrases. 5s.

"The work of a man who understands the subject on which he is writing, and is able to express his meaning clearly. Mr. Jacobi may further be complimented on having supplied an excellent index." - Athenaeum.

"A practical treatise of more than common value. . . . This is a thorough, concise, and intelligible book, written with obvious mastery of all details of the subject." - The Speaker.

"Mr. Jacobi goes into the minutest particulars . . . contains a large amount of information which will prove interesting to anyone who has ever had occasion to look into a printed book or newspaper." - Saturday Review.

"It deals with the subject in an exhaustive and succinct manner, . . . We wish it all the success it deserves in its efforts on behalf of technological education." - Printing Times and Lithographer.

"There is much about it which pleases us. . . . It is well printed and well illustrated. . . . He has written tersely and to the point." - Printers' Register.

" ' Printing' is a book that we can recommend to our readers. It is literally full of items which will be of importance to the printer in his daily toil." - Effective Advertiser.