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42 - DIDEROT – D’ALEMBERT. ENCYCLOPAEDIA OR REASONED DICTIONARY O…
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DIDEROT – D’ALEMBERT. ENCYCLOPAEDIA OR REASONED DICTIONARY OF THE SCIENCES, ARTS AND TRADES. Paris, Briasson, David, Le Breton, Durand, Panckoucke, Stoupe and Brunet – Neuchâtel, Faulche [Paris, Le Breton] – Amsterdam, Rey, 1751–1780. Four folio volumes (binding dimensions: approx. 40 × 26.5 cm) in marbled fawn calfskin, decorated ribbed spine with title and volume number labels, red edges (contemporary binding). MISSING: the first 4 leaves of vol. 2 (half-title, title page and text pages 1 to 4), corner loss with loss of a few words on pages 1 and 2 of vol. 5, significant loss of leather on the front cover of vol. 2, some signs of wear, small losses of leather and incipient splitting at two joints on the bindings. FIRST EDITION, in folio format, comprising 4 VOLUMES OF PLATES of this MAJOR 18TH-CENTURY WORK, a symbol of the Enlightenment and the first French encyclopaedia. The 4 volumes comprise a total of 935 PLATES, a number of which are double-page spreads: volume 2 (188 plates), volume 4 (275 plates), volume 5 (236 plates) and volume 8 (236 plates). The complete set comprises a total of 35 volumes, including 12 volumes of plates. AS IS. ¶ Tchemerzine, IV-435: ‘There were numerous reprints of the Encyclopédie despite the physical scale of the work: none is as fine as the first’ – En français dans le texte, 156.
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