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Author

DIDEROT and d'ALEMBERT

Langue

Type couverture

Condition

Editor

Année de publication

Era

XVIIIe

Lieu de publication

Nombre de page

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Description

Complete file on the bookbinder’s trade from one of the eleven volumes of illustrations printed between 1762 and 1782 of “L’Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts & des métiers, par une Société de Gens de lettres” by Diderot and d’Alembert. In folio consisting of a page of explanations of the plates, followed by the plates engraved by Benard: pl. I: “Relieur” pl. II: “Relieur, Presse a Rogner et Developpemens” pl. III: “Relieur” pl. IV: “Relieur, Presse et Développemens” pl. V: “Relieur Doreur” pl. VI: “Relieur Doreur, Presse, Développements et Outils.” They depict the tools used by bookbinders and bookbinder-gilders, and a vignette illustrates a bookbinder’s workshop (pl. I) and a bookbinder-gilder’s workshop (pl. V) with workers and a sewing machine. Slight fold in upper corner.