Improved to the Modern Practice,
From the Minutest to the Highest Branches;
CONTAINING
| Aigrettes | Globes | Silver-Rain |
| Amber-lights | Gold-Rain | Spur-Fire |
| Balloons | Grand Volutes | Squibs |
| Batteries | Leaders | Stars |
| Chinese Fire-Ships | Lights | Sky-Rockets |
| Cohorns | Mines | Swans |
| Cones | Matches | Swarms |
| Crackers | Mortars | Thunder in Rooms |
| Cascades | Marrons | Towering-Rockets, |
| Dodecadrons | Moons | double and single |
| Ducks | Neptune’s Chariot | Tourbillons |
| Earthquakes | Potts | Trees |
| Flights | Pumps | Water Fire-Works |
| Flyers | Rain-Fall | Wheels |
| Fountains | Rockets | Yew-Trees |
| Gerbes | Sea-Fights |
With all their Ingredients, Compositions, Preparations,Machines, Moulds, and Manner to make them, refiningSalt-Petre, and to extract it from damagedGunpowder, &c.
With about 100 of the principal Figures beautifully
engraved on Copper Plates.
The SECOND EDITION.
With the Addition of many new and beautifulFire-Works, and 3 large Copper-Plates.
Lieutenant in the Royal Regiment of Artillery.
LONDON:
Printed for J. Millan, near Whitehall. (Price 7s, 6d.)
Mdcclxvi.
TO
SIR CHARLES FREDERICK,
KNIGHT OF THE MOST NOBLE
ORDER OF THE BATH,
SURVEYOR GENERAL OF HIS
MAJESTY’S ORDNANCE,
AND FELLOW OF THE ROYAL
SOCIETY, AT LONDON.
THIS TREATISE
ON ARTIFICIAL FIREWORKS
IS HUMBLY INSCRIBED
BY
HIS MOST OBEDIENT
AND MUCH OBLIGED
HUMBLE SERVANT,
ROBERT JONES.