A Diderot Pictorial Encyclopedia of Trades and Industry: Manufacturing and the Technical Arts in Plates Selected from "L'Encyclo
Diderot, Denis.
Two Volumes. Sm. Folio. 485pl. Blue library cloth with gold lettering on spine, with pictorial dust jackets and cardboard slipcase. Illustrated throughout with 485 full-page plates. "Artists, illustrators and collectors, together with historians of art, invention, and economic life, will welcome the first reissue in a century and a half of these charming copperplates. They were engraved to illustrate the first work of its kind, the Encyclopedie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonne des Sciences, des Arts et des Metiers." Slipcase split on lower fore edge, firmly holding. Overall very good condition.
Edition: Reissue
Book ID: 22177
Price: $175.00