Recueil de planches, sur les sciences, les arts libéraux, et les arts méchaniques, avec leur explication
This is an 18th-century French encyclopedia plate volume, the Recueil de planches of Diderot and d'Alembert published in Paris in 1762 for craftsmen, scholars and general readers. Its engraved plates document trades and machines in precise detail, with numbered figures and captions beneath each group. A designer can draw on the clean line engraving, careful hatching and orderly grid of labelled diagrams for schematic or instructional graphics.
