Caracteres et alphabets de langues mortes et vivantes
Contributors: Cotheal, Alexander Isaac, 1804-1894, former owner
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Published: 1782
Place of publication: Paris?]
Language: fre
Number of pages: 50
Subjects: Alphabets; Early works to 1800; Penmanship
Other titles: Encyclopédie méthodique. Arts et métiers mécaniques.
Work titles: Encyclopédie méthodique. Caracteres et alphabets de langues mortes et vivantes. Planches
Notes: Caption title, which runs perpendicular to the spine across the bottom margin of facing pages throughout the book.

Engravings signed: Benard direxit.

The plates were issued to accompany t. 1 of Encyclopédie méthodique. Arts et métiers mecaniques, 1782.

The 50 leaves comprise 25 numbered double plates. The leaves bear a second set of numbers (66-90), probably as part of a larger work.

Rare Book copy: Imperfect; plates 16-17 (also numbered 81-82) wanting.

Rare Book copy: From the library of Alexander I. Cotheal, with his ownership stamp.