Recueil de planches, sur les sciences, les arts libéraux, et les arts méchaniques, avec leur explication
This is an 18th-century French encyclopedic plate volume from the Recueil de planches of the Encyclopédie, edited by Diderot and d'Alembert and published in Paris in 1762 for a general readership of craftsmen and learned readers. The pictures are precise engraved plates of trades, showing locksmith tools, locks, hinges, and fittings drawn in numbered figures with lettered details, offering a designer a model of clean line diagrams with labelled parts and orderly grid layouts.
