Chris Philip - A Bibliography of Firework Books. Works on recreative fireworks from the sixteenth to the twentieth century

Chris Philip - A Bibliography of Firework Books. Works on recreative fireworks from the sixteenth to the twentieth century - Winchester UK - C. Philip / St. Paul's Bibliographies - 1985 - 1st edition - [xxx], 168, [18] pp - Cloth binding with dust jacket - 16,5 x 24 cm.

Condition: Good - from the library of antiquarian Max Israël (1916-2001) with an invoice from the publisher addressed to his antiquarian bookshop.

Bibliography of books on fireworks and pyrotechnics from the 16th to the 20th century. Illustrated with a frontispiece in colour and reproductions (of title pages and prints) in black and white. With table of contents and list of abbreviations and illustrations. Cover image: G. Valck, Habit d'Artificie (late 17th century). Hardcover edition.

¶ Indispensable reference work for antiquarians and collectors of fireworks books (with more than 600 entries). Describes, among others, Johann Schmidlap's, 'Künstliche und Rechtschaffene Feuerwerk zum Schimpff' (1560); the very first book completely devoted to decorative fireworks.

"This bibliography of books on fireworks is concerned primarily with 'recreative' rather than 'military' fireworks, 'pour la recreation' or 'pour la joie' rather than 'pour la guerre', for 'die Lustfeuerwerker' and not 'der Ernstfeuerwerker '." -Introduction.