Diderot Denis, Gillispie Charles Coulston. Pictorial Encyclopedia of Trades and Industry. Volume 1

Dover Publications, 1959. — 416 p. — ISBN 9780486222844, 0486222845.Artists, illustrators and collectors, together with historians of art, invention, and economic life, will welcome the first reissue in a century and a half of these charming copperplates. They were engraved to illustrate the first work of its kind, the Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers. As that work was the crowning venture of the Enlightenment, so the plates which accompanied it were among the finest achievements of the graphic arts in the 18th century.Introduction.
Agriculture Rural Arts.
Art of War.
Iron Foundry & Forge Extractive Industries. Metal Working.