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THE PYROTECHNIST'S TREASURY.
"The Secret Out Series."
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Art of Amusing. A Collection of Graceful Arts, Games, Tricks,Puzzles, and Charades, intended to amuse everybody. By FrankBellew. With nearly 300 Illustrations.
Hanky-Panky. A Wonderful Book of Very Easy Tricks, Very DifficultTricks, White Magic, Sleight of Hand; in fact, all those startlingDeceptions which the Great Wizards call "Hanky-Panky." Edited by W.H. Cremer. With nearly 200 Illustrations.
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Merry Circle (The), and How the Visitors were Entertained duringTwelve Pleasant Evenings. A Book of New Intellectual Games andAmusements. Edited by Mrs. Clara Bellew. With numerousIllustrations.
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⁂ The above Series of Books contain Explanations of all the moststartling feats of legerdemain performed by the celebratedPrestidigitateurs, Robert Houdin, Frikell, Dr. Lynn, Professor Anderson,and others.
CHATTO & WINDUS, Piccadilly, W.
THE PYROTECHNIST'S TREASURY;
OR,
COMPLETE ART OF MAKING FIREWORKS.
BY
THOMAS KENTISH.
Flammas Jovis, et sonitus imitatur Olympi.
Virgil, Æn. vi. 586.
London: CHATTO & WINDUS, PICCADILLY. 1878.
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PREFACE.
Until within the last few years there was scarcely any work in English,that I am aware of, on the subject of Pyrotechny, worth reading, withthe exception of an Article in "Brewster's Cyclopædia," by MacCulloch;and this, besides being accessible to only a few, having been publishedin 1830, made no mention of colours, which form the most beautiful partof the art.
In the first year of the present century a treatise was written by aCaptain Jones, which has been copied, in whole or in part, into almostevery work since published. The greater portion of it is absurd andimpracticable, and shows that i