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 Encyclopédie, published in Paris in 1762 for a general readership of craftsmen and educated buyers. The plates document trades and tools in precise engraved detail, with workshop scenes above labelled tool layouts. A designer can take from them the clean line-engraving vocabulary of tools, benches and workshop interiors, arranged as systematic technical diagrams.
