Author: PYROTECHNICS.
Title: A New and Comprehensive Edition of the Art of Making Fireworks with Safety and Ease, Containing Instructions for the Following: Artificial Earthquakes, Artificial Thunder, Blue Flame, Blue Candle, Balloons, Crackers, Fancy Devices, Fires, Fountains, Gerbes, Lights, Mines, Mortars, Marroons, Roman Candles, Rockets, Rains Gold and Silver, Stars, Serpents, Sparks of all Colours, Tourbillons, Catharine Wheels, Wildfires, Water Fireworks of numerous kinds. With full information relative to the properties, as well as mixing and preparing Gunpowder, Saltpetre, Charcoal, Steel and Iron Fillings, &c. &c.
Description: London: Printed for Thomas Hughes, [circa 1820.] 12mo (178 x 105 mm), [2], [7]-36pp., folding hand-coloured frontispiece, some light soiling, rebound in later red cloth. JISC and OCLC locating a single copy at the British Library. Philips, A Bibliography of Firework Books, A170.4.

Keywords: PYROTECHNICS FIREWORKS TECHNOLOGY APPLIED ARTS