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 by Briasson, David, Le Breton and Durand for French readers of the Enlightenment. Its engraved plates show architecture, antiquities, and rural crafts such as spinning and tanning, with each plate labelled and numbered for cross-reference to the text. A designer might take the crisp, orderly line engraving, with its clear sectional drawings and labelled diagrams, as a model for technical illustration.
