Recueil de Planches, Sur les Sciences, les Arts Libéraux, et les Arts Méchaniques. Encyclopédie - t.10
Category: Preserve for the Future
Location: Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology
Recueil de planches, sur les sciences, les arts libéraux, et les arts méchaniques : avec leur explication ..., 10
The Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, par une Société de Gens de lettres was published under the direction of Diderot and d'Alembert, with 17 volumes of text and 11 volumes of plates between 1751 and 1772. Containing 74,000 articles written by more than 130 contributors, the Encyclopédie was a massive reference work for the arts and sciences, as well as a machine de guerre which served to propagate the ideas of the French Enlightenment. The impact of the Encyclopédie was enormous. Through its attempt to classify learning and to open all domains of human activity to its readers, the Encyclopédie gave expression to many of the most important intellectual and social developments of its time.
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A full leather bound volume of Denise Diderot's masterwork. The leather is mottled calf with gilt tooled spine and a leather label. The book is sewn on six raised cords, visible on the spine. The pastedowns are hand marbled in a red blue and yellow French curl and spot pattern. The text is printed on laid paper with a visible, but difficult to ascertain, watermark. The binding is failing at the gutter margins with areas of loss at the gutter and around the cords. There is delamination of the leather on the cover of the volume.
Conservators will re-back the volume using toned Iowa case paper where appropriate. The delaminating leather will be re-attached and the damaged pages of the textblock repaired.
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