Description Abregée Des Principaux Arts Et Metiers Et Des Instrumens qui leurs sont propres, le tout détaillée par figures. avec de Nouvelles Augmentations.
RA Collection: Book
Record number
04/2916
Imprint
AParis.: Chez Claude Duflos Graveur rue des Noyers chez Mr. Haste Serrurier de la Ville., [ca. 1727?]
Physical Description
143 p. [i.e. 92 p., 69 pl. (11 fold.)]: illus.; 282 mm.
General Note
The whole text is engraved. All leaves are numbered in one sequence - sometimes as leaves, sometimes as pages (numbered on both recto and verso). Full-page illustrations and plates are included in this one sequence. Additionally most plates are numbered, I-LXVII - and this numbering also includes both plates and full-page illustrations.
Contents
[T.-pl.] - Avertissement - [Text, with pl.].
Responsibility Note
Most plates and illustrations are unsigned, but a few are signed as drawn by Guélard or Laury, and engraved by Guélard. Most head- and tail-pieces preceding the numbered plates are unsigned, but two are signed as engraved or made by Guélard.
Summary Note
The Avertissement states that this publication includes plates formerly used in A. Felibien's Des principes de l'architecture, de la sculpture, de la peinture ( first published in 1676, with further editions in 1690, 1697 and 1699).
The first few plates show architectural orders and decorations; the rest, various arts and crafts and their tools, including engraving (pl. LXI, p. 122) and printing (pl. LXVI, LXVII, pp. 136, 138, 139).
Provenance
Acquired between 1769 and 1802. Recorded in RAA Library, Catalogue, 1802.
Binding Note
18th-century half calf, marbled-papered boards; rebacked in 20th century, retaining earlier red and black morocco spine-labels lettered 'Description Abregee Des Principaux Arts Et metiers' and 'R.A.'
Subject
Arts - Crafts - Instruments - Tools - Construction equipment - France - History - 18th century
Manuals, French - Encyclopedias and dictionaries, French - Reference books - France - 18th century
Pictorial works - France - 18th century