The Pyrotechnist's Treasury: Or The Complete Art of Making Fireworks.

Very Good/No Jacket. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Large 12mo, illustrated, 200 numbered pages plus 16 plates of drawings, and 40 pages of advertisements for other Chatto & Windus books appended. In original decorative binding, which is slightly soiled , and spine sunned, otherwise nice and tight. Pages 177-200 evidently damaged in some pyrotechnic mishap have been replaced by professionally lithographed signatures from Bayport Printing of Minnesota. Extra copies of the signatures (see second image)used in the restoration are available for inspection by sending me an SASE of 6 x 9 inches or larger. One of the classics of modern pyrotechnics, especially strong on rockets, stars, case-rolling, and garnitures. Uncommon in any of the original editions. An advertisement for "'The Secret out series'" on p. [ii] (facing title) does not include this work, but it is listed under the series in the publisher's October 1878 catalogue bound into this copy. "New Volume of the 'Secret Out' Series.The Pyrotechnist's Treasury; or, Complete Art of Making Fireworks. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, with numerous Plates, 4s, 6d. By Thomas Kentish " London: Printed by J. Ogden and Co., 172, St. John Street, E.C."--t.p. verso; "J. Ogden and Co., printers, 172, St. John Street, E.C."--p. 200./ Bound in publisher's blue cloth; decorated lettering of front cover and spine in black and silver; small blind-stamped arabesque mandorla on back cover; grey coated endpapers./ Includes index./ This copy includes "Chatto & Windus's list of books" (40 p.), dated October 1878, bound in at end. See Philip K010.1 Not a Cheesy reproduction, this book is an original.…