Iconographic encyclopaedia of science, literature, and art
An 1852 New York encyclopaedia of science, literature and art compiled by J. G. Heck and Spencer Baird, arranged as a picture-led reference for general readers. The scans show a bookplate from The Cooper Union, which gave the volume to its library, and an engraved instrument from the science sections. A designer might take from it the crisp black-line engraving of scientific apparatus set on plain white ground, with its labelled, diagrammatic clarity.
