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Firework Display at Quebec. From a drawing by C. M. Padday     Frontispiece

Six Coloured Japanese Prints of Fireworks manufactured by Messrs. Hirayama of Yokohama     2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12

Facsimile Title Page of John Bate's "Second Booke," 1635     16

A Display of the Earliest Type (c. 1650)     18

Set Piece of the Scenic Type     20

Firework Display at Nuremberg, 1650     22

Great Firework Display near Stockholm, 1669     24

Fireworks on the Thames, 1688     28

Firework Display given by the Duke of Richmond, 1749     30

Firework Temple at Vauxhall, 1845     36

Fireworks at Versailles, 1855, from a drawing by Gustav Doré     44

The Grand Whim for Posterity to laugh at, 1749     46

A Full-size Picture of the Jumma Musjid in Fireworks at } the Crystal Palace, 1892                                } Firework Display for the Coronation Durbar at Delhi,    }      50 January 3rd, 1903                                       }

A Crystal Palace Set Piece at the time of the South African War     52

Panorama of the Aerial Effects in the National Display at Hyde Park, 1919     56

The Explosion at Madame Cotton's Firework Factory, 1858     66

Programme of Experiments with Fireworks at Nunhead, 1872     68

Modern Firework Tools     72

Types of Modern Fireworks     90

Cracker Making     92