10. Lime, Cement And Plaster
(p) [Antoine-Joseph] Loriot, A Practical Essay on a Cement or Artificial Stone, &c. 2nd ed, T Cadell, London 1775.
[R Polycarpe de] La Faye, Recherches sur la Préparation que les Romains donnaient à la Chaux dont ils se servoient pour leurs Constructions & sur la Composition & l'Emploi de leurs Mortiers. Imprimerie Royale, Paris 1777. bound with Faujas de Saint Fond, Pouzzolane, qv, and with:
[R Polycarpe de] La Faye , Mémoire pour server de suite aux Recherches sur la Préparation que les Romains donnaient à la Chaux dont ils se servoient pour leurs Constructions & sur la Composition & l'Emploi de leurs Mortiers. Imprimerie Royale, Paris 1778
[Barthélemy] Faujas de Saint Fond, Recherches sur la Pouzzolane, sur la Théorie de la Chaux &c. J Cuchet, Grenoble 1778. 2 copies.
B G Sage. Des Mortiers ou Cimens, Expériences qui sont connaitre la cohésion que contracte la chaux avec les matières minérales, végétales ou animales [extrait d'un mémoire lu à l'Institut de France le 17 Octobre 1808], 3rd ed, Paris 1808.
Bry. [Bryan] Higgins. Calcareous Cements. London 1780. The pioneering work in this field, still couched in terms like 'phlogisticated air', and preceding the introduction of either Roman or Portland cement. Higgins was an Irishman with a medical degree from Leyden, who established himself in Greek Street, Soho, as a lecturer in chemistry. In 1778 he produced a new cement suitable for exterior use, and in 1778-9 supplied it to the brothers James and Samuel Wyatt for use on buildings in the London area. In various sources, such as Weinreb catalogue new series 6, item 332, the Christian name is given as Bryan. However Burnell, Limes and Cements [infra], pp 101-7, reproduces his patent, clearly in the name of Brindley Higgins.
L J Vicat [trans J T Smith]. Calcareous Mortars and Cements. London 1837. Vicat was the first to produce a successful artificial cement, and it was patented in Britain by James Frost in 1811. Vicat published his Recherches Expérimentales in 1818, and then in 1828 the work of which this is a translation, Résumé des Connaissance Positives Actuelles sur les Qualités, &c. The translation is only the second work on mortar and cement in English, after Higgins.
Arthur Aikin. On Limestone and Calcareous Cements(paper read before the Society of Arts, 10 March 1835). London 1838.
C W Pasley. Observations on Limes, Calcareous Cements, &c. London 1838. Colonel (later General Sir Charles) Pasley's experiments, principally at the Chatham Dockyard, resulted in his developing an 'artificial water cement' or Portland cement, though the credit for the discovery is now generally given to James Aspdin. Pasley's son captain Charles Pasley was Victoria's Colonial Engineer, Commissioner for Public Works &c, in the 1850s, and Pasley Street, South Yarra, is named after him.
G R Burnell. Rudimentary Treatise on Limes, Cements, Mortars, Concretes, &c. 3rd ed, London 1857.
James G Austin. Calcareous and Hydraulic Limes and Cements. London 1862.
Henry Reid. Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Portland Cement. London 1868. bound with:
A Lipowitz [translated W F Reid]. The Practical Manufacture of Portland Cement. London 1868.
Q A Gillmore. Practical Treatise on Limes, Hydraulic Cements and Mortars. 8th ed, New York 1886 [1863].
Henry Faija. Portland Cement for Users. 3rd ed, London 1890.
F P Spaulding. Hydraulic Cement. New York 1897.
W H Stanger & Bertram Blount. The Adulteration of Portland Cement(paper read to the London Section of the Society of Chemical Industry, 1 November 1897). London, no date. Copy inscribed by one of the authors to W Brindley.
D B Butler. Portland Cement: its Manufacture, Testing and Use. London 1899.
A C Davis. Portland Cement. London 1904.
F T Hodgson. Mortars, Plasters, Stuccos. Chicago 1916 [1906]
E A Dancaster. Limes & Cements. London 1916.
A C Davis. A Hundred Years of Portland Cement 1824-1924. London 1924.
Kerner-Greenwood & Co, The Handbook of Cement Waterproofing (Kerner-Greenwood, King’s Lynn [Norfolk] 1928) [Link]
Medusa White Cement
(p) Sandusky Cement Co, Concrete Work Made Easy. Sandusky Cement Co, Cleveland [Ohio], no date [?1922]. See code on rear page; also a calendar page of 1919 was within it. [Link]
(p) Sandusky Cement Co, Medusa Waterproofing Paste. Sandusky Cement Co, Cleveland [Ohio], no date [?1922]. See code on rear page. [Link]
(p) Sandusky Cement Co, Specifications for Medusa Waterproofed White Portland Cement; Medusa White Portland Cement; Medusa Waterproofing (Powder and Paste); Medusa Waterproofed Gray Portland Cement; Medusa Cement Paints. Sandusky Cement Co, Cleveland [Ohio], no date. [Link]
(p) Sandusky Cement Co, Medusa White Cement; Waterproofed; Plain. Sandusky Cement Co, Cleveland [Ohio], no date.
(p) Sandusky Cement Co, Medusa White Cement; Waterproofed; Plain. Sandusky Cement Co, Cleveland [Ohio], no date. [SAME TITLE; DIFFERENT LEAFLET] [Link]
(p) Sandusky Cement Co, Medusa Stainless White Cement; Waterproofed; Plain. Sandusky Cement Co, Cleveland [Ohio], no date [c 1930] . [SAME TITLE; NOW A SUBSTANTIAL BROCHURE]
(p) Sandusky Cement Co, Medusa Waterproof Cement Paint. Sandusky Cement Co, Cleveland [Ohio], no date. [Link]
Plastering
William Millar. Plasterering Plain and Decorative. 3rd ed, London, 1905 [1897]..
G P Bankart. The Art of the Plasterer. London, 1907. This copy inscribed on 15 December 1908 as that of Aldam Heaton & Co Ltd, London (the famous decorators).
W Verrall. The Modern Plasterer. 2 vols, London, no date [c 1930].
(p) Rockwall ephemera, Atlantic Gypsum Products Company, Boston c 1930: Rockwall the Improved Gypsum Wall Board; When you buy Wallboard get the Cream; business enquiry postcard; advertising broadside; sample press advertisement; contemporary envelope addressed to 'J.C. Robinson, St. George, Maine'; plasterboard sample.
W S Lowndes & D K Boyd. Plastering and Stucco Work. 2nd ed, Scranton [Pennsylvania] 1931 [1923].
United States Gypsum Company. A Catalog of Building Materials ['The Red Book'] Chicago 1936.
See also:
(sec 6) Graham, Audels Masons and Builders Guide; (sec 11) Baker & De Groot, Cements, Concrete and Mortar (sec 38) Kandos Co, Manufacture of Portland Cement; (sec 12) Central Expanded Metal, Steel Lathing and Netting.