Fireworks.- Mr Diller's Grand Exhibition of New-Invented Philosophical Fireworks from Inflammable Air...at the Lyceum, near Exeter Change, Strand..., trimmed very slightly unevenly to head, light water-staining, faint folds, 235 x 170mm., Stevenson, April 1788 [dated by hand in ink] § New Olympic Circus, Whitefriar-Gate...a Grand and Britlliant Display of Fire Works, With a great Variety of other Entertainments..., 220 x 187mm., Hull, J. Ferraby, 7th June 1806, printed playbills; and another printed playbill laid down in two parts, featuring fireworks and a Montgolfier balloon, v.s. (3)
⁂ Diller (d. 1789), a Professor of Natural Philosophy and instrument maker from Holland, exhibited his philosophical fireworks "without Smell, Smoke, or Gunpowder".
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