Trade "Secrets" And Private Recipes

A Collection of Recipes, Processes, and Formulas that have been offered for sale at prices varying from 25 cents to $500. With Notes, Corrections, Additions, and Special Hints for Improvements. - Edited by John Phin, assisted by an experienced and skillful pharmacist. - Cloth, gilt title.......60 cents.

This work was prepared by the author for the purpose of collecting and presenting in a compact form all those recipes and so-called "trade secrets" which. have been so extensively advertised and offered for sale. It is by no means a claptrap book, though it exposes many claptraps. It contains a large amount of valuable information that can not be readily found elsewhere: and it gives not only the formulae, etc. for manufacturing an immense variety of articles, but important and trustworthy hints as to the best way of making money out of them. Even as a. book of recipes it is worth more than its price to any one who is interested in the subject on which it treats.

A Practical Guide To Success In The Use Of Recipes

Formulae, etc, with Hints on Chemical and Mechanical Manipulation. - Intended as a supplement to all books of recipes. - By John Phin. - 12mo, paper...........25 cents.

While it is an undoubted fact that many of the recipes published in the ordinary collections are erroneous, either from original blunders on the part of the authors or from mistakes in copying, failure in the use of others frequently arises from defective information and vicious methods on the part of those who attempt to put them in practice. The object of the present book is to give such hints and cautions as will enable the worker to secure success where success is possible; and where the products are intended for sale it gives special and valuable advice as to the best methods of putting: them on the market.

A Manual Of Instruction In The Art Of Wood Engraving

With a Description of the necessary Tools and Apparatus, and Concise Directions for their Use; Explanations of the Terms used and the Methods employed for producing the various classes of Wood Engravings. - By S. E. Fuller. - Fully illustrated with engravings by the author, separate sheets of engravings for transfer and practice being added. - New edition, neatly bound. 50 cts.

A really thorough and practical work, written for those who want to learn the ■art without the aid of a teacher.

A Guide To Collodio Etching

By Rev. Benjamin Hartley. - Illustrated by the author. - 12mo, cloth......................$1.00

This volume gives complete and minute instructions for one of the most delightful of amateur arts. It is fully illustrated by woodcuts of all the apparatus used which is very simple and easily made), and also by actual photo-prints of the etchings themselves.

The Practical Pocket Companion

A Cyclopedia of the most useful Facts, Figures, and General Information required by everybody in everyday life. - Edited by John Phin, author of "How to Use the Microscope," "The Workshop Companion," "Chemical History of the Six Days of Creation." etc. - Numerous illustrations.......,10 cents.