Diderot, Denis (1713-1784) Theater Plans from Encyclopedie. Folio, two volumes, plate sections related to theater construction and architecture removed from Diderot's Encyclopedie, 1751-1780. Volume one contains thirty-one plates, seven double-paged, with the explanatory text at the beginning; volume two contains forty-two plates, fourteen double-paged, and four folding, and the explanatory text at the beginning, all describing "Machines de Theatre"; plates by Radel, under the direction of Giraud, theater machinist at the Opera in Paris; both volumes bound in recent quarter calfskin with marbled paper boards.
Diderot, Denis (1713-1784) Theater Plans from Encyclopedie. Folio, two volumes, plate sections related to theater construction and architecture removed from Diderot's Encyclopedie, 1751-1780. Volume one contains thirty-one plates, seven double-paged, with the explanatory text at the beginning; volume two contains forty-two plates, fourteen double-paged, and four folding, and the explanatory text at the beginning, all describing "Machines de Theatre"; plates by Radel, under the direction of Giraud, theater machinist at the Opera in Paris; both volumes bound in recent quarter calfskin with marbled paper boards.
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