Antique Print-PAPETERIE-PAPER-MILL-MANUFACTURE-PLATE-Panckoucke-1782

Medium: Etching / engraving on hand laid (vergé) paper. Watermark: (on some plates).

Sheet size: 30 x 46 cm (11.81 x 18.11 inch). Image size: 22.3 x 33.5 cm. (8.78 x 13.19 inch).

Condition: very good, given age. Occasional dampstaing in margins. Ocassional small holes in left margin from binding. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

ENCYCLOPEDIE METHODIQUE, PAPETERIE, PAPER MILL, MANUFACTURE, MONTARGIS, INDUSTRIAL, WATERWHEEL, 18TH CENTURY ENGRAVING, BENARD | BOX-PANCKOUCKE-2

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

This set of plates originate from ‘Encyclopédie Méthodique ou par ordre de matieres ….’ published between 1782-1832 by Panckoucke. This set of plates was published as part of the ‘Receuil de Planches de l’Encyclopedie, par ordre de matieres. Tome quatrieme, 1785.’ This encyclopedia is one of the most extensive of all encyclopaedias ever produced. It is in fact a much enlarged and re-arranged edition of Diderot and d’Alembert’s Encyclopedie. Its famous predecessor: ‘Encyclopedie ou Dictionnaire raisonne des sciences, des arts et des metiers …’.

Biography engraver: Robert Benard (fl. 1750-1785) direxit.

Biography artist: Author: Joseph Panckoucke (1736-1798) was a French writer and publisher, notable for the Encyclopédie Méthodique. His partner was Henri Agasse, married to his daughter Therese-Charlotte, who finished the last 166 volumes after Charles-Joseph died. His son Charles Louis Fleury Panckoucke continued in the writing and publishing business as well.