Complete file on the bookbinder’s trade from one of the eleven volumes of illustrations printed between 1762 and 1782 of Diderot and d’Alembert’s “Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts & des métiers, par une Société de Gens de lettres”. In folio with three pages of plate explanations, followed by plates engraved by Defehrt (I, III and V) and Prevost (II,IV): pl. I: “Confiseur, Confiture Fourneau” pl. II: “Confiseur, Etuve Fourneau” pl. III: “Confiseur, Fabrique de la Dragée Lisse et Perlée” pl. IV: “Confiseur, Pastillage et Moulles pour les Glaces” pl. Each plate is illustrated with a vignette: confectioners at work on plates I, III, IV and V; a laboratory with oven and proofer on plate II. Some foxing, mainly on the text pages.
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