Recueil de planches, sur les sciences, les arts libéraux, et les arts méchaniques : avec leur explication ..
This is a plate volume from Diderot and d'Alembert's Recueil de planches, published in Paris in 1762 by Briasson, David, Le Breton and Durand as an illustrated supplement to the Encyclopédie for educated French readers. The engraved plates show machines, weapons, glassware and horse equipment drawn in precise outline with lettered figures keyed to explanatory text. A designer can draw on their crisp hatching, clean labelled diagrams and orderly grid layouts for historical or technical reference.
