Artificial fire-works, improved to the modern practice, from the minutest to the highest branches
Subtitle: containing aigrettes amber-lights balloons ... yew-trees with all their ingredients, compositions, preparations, machines, moulds, and manner to make them, refining salt-petre, and to extract it from damaged gunpowder, &c, with about 100 of the principal figures beautifully engraved on copper plates ...
By: by Robert Jones, Lieutenant in the Royal Regiment of Artillery
Contributors: Darling, William; Millan, John, -1782
Edition: The second edition, with the addition of many new and beautiful fire-works, and 3 large copper-plates.
Publisher: Printed for J. Millan, near Whitehall.
Published: 1766
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
Subjects: Fireworks; Early works to 1800; Military fireworks
Other titles: Artificial fireworks, improved to the modern practice
Work titles: New treatise on artificial fireworks
Notes: Reissue, with cancel title, of: A new treatise on artificial fireworks. London : J. Millan, 1765. The original pages 253-[256] have been replaced by revised and enlarged p. 253-262, with "Contents to the additions" on verso of title leaf.

Plates drawn by the author (presumably including the new plates 6-8, though they do not include his name) and engraved by William Darling.

Signatures: a⁸(±a1) b⁴ chi1 c1 B-Q⁸ R⁸( -R7,8 + chi⁴) 2chi1.

Errata: p. [1] (second series).

ESTC 115792.

Philip, C.  A bibliography of firework books, J020.2