Clean, tightly bound book. Faults limited to mild wear to boards and fading to title at face and spine. Contents very clean and marred only by browning to two pages from a leather book mark from Australia which remains in the book. Illustrated with technical drawings.Covers all aspects of the clay products industry from a business perspective, including why such businesses fail, record and cost systems, plasticity, flint fireclays, clay volumes and values, clay mining, minerals in clay, preliminary treatment of clay, plans and plant arrangement, power, machinery, kilns, glazing, firing and more. ALSO AVAILABLE is the author's book Burning Clay Wares, as well as other tiles related to the clay product industry and blast furnaces.