DIDEROT, DENIS and JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, par une société de gens de lettres. Paris, Neuchâtel and Amsterdam 1751-1780 [comprising Texte : 17 vols., Paris and Neuchâtel 1751-65; Planches : 12 vols. (i.e., 11 vols. + Suite du Recueil de Planches ), Paris 1762-77 (-- Suite : Paris and Amsterdam 1777); Supplément : 4 vols., Amsterdam and Paris & Amsterdam 1776-77; Table : 2 vols., Paris and Amsterdam 1780]. 35 vols., folio, average size 388 x 250 mm. (15 3/16 x 9 3/4 in.), contemporary French mottled or cat's paw calf (non-uniform, from 2 different sets), spines gilt, morocco lettering-pieces, edges stained red, a few repairs to joints, corners and spines, a few joints split, most upper inner hinges cracking, some rubbing, library shelf-mark numbers incised on spines; occasional browning or foxing, a very few short marginal tears, library ink stamps on title-pages and on rectos of first few plates and versos of all plates . FIRST EDITION (i.e. Lough I, "Paris--'Neuchâtel' folio edition"), engraved general frontispiece by Prévost after Cochin, 2,797 engraved plates by Benard (2,581 in Planches , 215 in Suite...de Planches , 1 large folding tree of knowledge plate in Table vol. 1), many folding. A complete set: the total number of plates as given on each title-page totals 3,129, on account of folding plates being counted as "doubles", or, occasionally "triples". There are occasional errors in the "Avis aux relieurs" tally. Subscription leaf bound in at front of text vol. 7. Sold not subject to return. John Lough, Essays on the Encyclopédie of Didérot and D'Alembert (London 1968), pp. 2-15; Grolier/Horblit 25b; PMM 200. "A monument in the history of European thought; the acme of the age of reason; a prime motive force in undermining the Ancien régime and in heralding the French Revolution; a permanent source for all aspects of eighteenth-century civilization--and a classic example of how not to arrange a work of reference..."-- Printing and the Mind of Man . "The greatest encyclopedia of science, which had widespread effect in establishing uniformity of terminology, concept, and procedure in all fields of science and technology"--Grolier/Horblit. The majority of the 71,818 articles were written by Diderot and d'Alembert, followed by Baron D'Holbach who contributed about 400 articles. The remaining 200 or so collaborators included Rousseau, Voltaire, Montesquieu, Buffon, Marmontel, Condorcet, Necker and Turgot. Provenance : The French Institute Alliance Française, New York City, Gift of the Hon. McDougall Hawkes, bookplates and inkstamps as above, with Hawkes's pencilled inscription at front of Planches vol. 1, and his notes on the set's contents on verso of Table vol. 1 title-leaf (including a leaf of his pasted-down stationery). (35)
DIDEROT, DENIS and JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, par une société de gens de lettres. Paris, Neuchâtel and Amsterdam 1751-1780 [comprising Texte : 17 vols., Paris and Neuchâtel 1751-65; Planches : 12 vols. (i.e., 11 vols. + Suite du Recueil de Planches ), Paris 1762-77 (-- Suite : Paris and Amsterdam 1777); Supplément : 4 vols., Amsterdam and Paris & Amsterdam 1776-77; Table : 2 vols., Paris and Amsterdam 1780]. 35 vols., folio, average size 388 x 250 mm. (15 3/16 x 9 3/4 in.), contemporary French mottled or cat's paw calf (non-uniform, from 2 different sets), spines gilt, morocco lettering-pieces, edges stained red, a few repairs to joints, corners and spines, a few joints split, most upper inner hinges cracking, some rubbing, library shelf-mark numbers incised on spines; occasional browning or foxing, a very few short marginal tears, library ink stamps on title-pages and on rectos of first few plates and versos of all plates . FIRST EDITION (i.e. Lough I, "Paris--'Neuchâtel' folio edition"), engraved general frontispiece by Prévost after Cochin, 2,797 engraved plates by Benard (2,581 in Planches , 215 in Suite...de Planches , 1 large folding tree of knowledge plate in Table vol. 1), many folding. A complete set: the total number of plates as given on each title-page totals 3,129, on account of folding plates being counted as "doubles", or, occasionally "triples". There are occasional errors in the "Avis aux relieurs" tally. Subscription leaf bound in at front of text vol. 7. Sold not subject to return. John Lough, Essays on the Encyclopédie of Didérot and D'Alembert (London 1968), pp. 2-15; Grolier/Horblit 25b; PMM 200. "A monument in the history of European thought; the acme of the age of reason; a prime motive force in undermining the Ancien régime and in heralding the French Revolution; a permanent source for all aspects of eighteenth-century civilization--and a classic example of how not to arrange a work of reference..."-- Printing and the Mind of Man . "The greatest encyclopedia of science, which had widespread effect in establishing uniformity of terminology, concept, and procedure in all fields of science and technology"--Grolier/Horblit. The majority of the 71,818 articles were written by Diderot and d'Alembert, followed by Baron D'Holbach who contributed about 400 articles. The remaining 200 or so collaborators included Rousseau, Voltaire, Montesquieu, Buffon, Marmontel, Condorcet, Necker and Turgot. Provenance : The French Institute Alliance Française, New York City, Gift of the Hon. McDougall Hawkes, bookplates and inkstamps as above, with Hawkes's pencilled inscription at front of Planches vol. 1, and his notes on the set's contents on verso of Table vol. 1 title-leaf (including a leaf of his pasted-down stationery). (35)
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