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PYROTECHNICS.. 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.1820
London: Printed for Thomas Hughes, 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.
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