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Manufacturing and the Technical Arts in Plates Selected from *"L'Encyclopdie ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts, et des Metiers,"* of Denis Diderot, edited with text by C. Gillis pie. Over 2000 illustrations on 485 full-page plates. Magnificent 18th century engravings of men, women, and children working at such trades as milling flour, cheesemaking, charcoal burning, mining, silverplating, shoeing horses, making fine glass, printing, hundreds more, showing details of machinery, different steps in sequence, etc. A remarkable art work, but also the largest collection of working figures in print, copyright-free, for art directors, designers, etc. Two vols.
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