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by Denis Diderot
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ISBN: 0486274284 Dover Publications Price: $29.95 |
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First paperbound edition of 485 remarkable plates (over 2,000 illustrations) that accompanied landmark work of the Enlightenment. Sharply detailed royalty-free images depict agriculture, military science, metalwork, mining, textile manufacture, masonry, carpentry, much more. Invaluable resource for art and craft use. Introduction and detailed captions by Charles C. Gillispie. Bibliography.
Table of Contents for A Diderot Pictorial Encyclopedia of Trades and Industry, Vol. 1
| Volume I | |||||||
| Introduction | |||||||
| Agriculture & Rural Arts | |||||||
| Art of War | |||||||
| Iron Foundry & Forge | |||||||
| Extractive Industries | |||||||
| Metal Working | |||||||
| Volume II | |||||||
| Glass | |||||||
| Masonry & Carpentry | |||||||
| Textiles | |||||||
| Paper & Printing | |||||||
| Leather | |||||||
| "Gold, Silver & Jewelry " | |||||||
| Fashion | |||||||
| Miscellaneous Trades | |||||||
| Index of Persons and Places | |||||||
| Index of Subjects Illustrated in Plates |