Suite du recueil de planches, sur les sciences, les arts liberaux et les arts méchaniques
This is a supplementary volume of engraved plates from Diderot's Encyclopédie, published in 1779 by Pellet and drawn from the Paris editions for French readers of the Enlightenment. The pictures are fine line engravings of instruments, architectural orders, column elevations, pediments and furnace or kiln sections, each plate labelled with lettered keys and numbered figures. A designer could draw on their crisp hatching, precise geometric diagrams and diagrammatic clarity for technical or classical-style graphics.
