Excerpt from The Chemistry of PotteryIt is hoped that this little treatise will supply informa tion that will turn future labors in this channel to good account.The writer is well aware that in confining the subject matter to the results of his personal experience the Shortcomings of the treatise are numerous and manifest, but he believes that as such it is a more direct expres si'on of the practical needs of the working potter, and therefore of more immediate value, than a compilation of the published work of European chemists on their ceramic industries.In a treatise of this kind, only the essentials, pottery bodies and glazes, could be considered. The colors and Operations of decorating, though interesting objects of Chemical study, would have led too far from the main purpose of the book.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.