Recueil de planches de l'Encyclopédie, par ordre de matières
Contributors: Panckoucke, Charles Joseph, 1736-1798, bookseller; Plomteux, Clément, bookseller
Series: [Encyclopédie méthodique]; Encyclopédie méthodique
Publisher: Chez Panckoucke, libraire, hôtel de Thou, rue des Poitevins; Chez Plomteux, imprimeur des États
Published: 1783
Place of publication: A Paris; A Liège
Language: fre
Subjects: Building trades; Pictorial works; Early works to 1800; Manufacturing processes; Shipbuilding; Military art and science; Heraldry; Mathematics; Hydraulics; Astronomy
Notes: "Avec approbation, et privilège du roi."

These are the plates (singles, doubles, triples, and quadruples) that accompany various volumes of the Encyclopédie méthodique. The plates are signed: Benard direxit.

Vol. 8 imprint gives Panckoucke only.

Vol. 1-2: 1783; v. 3: 1784; v. 4: 1785; v. 5: 1787; v. 6: 1786; v. 7: 1789; v. 8: 1790.

Pagination: v. 1: [8] p., [227] leaves of plates; v. 2: [8] p., [249] leaves of plates; v. 3: [4], [266] leaves of plates; v. 4: [4] p., [257] leaves of plates; v. 5: [4] p., [266] leaves of plates; v. 6: [4] p., [290] leaves of plates; v. 7: [4] p., [235] leaves of plates; v. 8: [4] p., [234] leaves of plates.

Title ornaments; tail-pieces.

"Ordre des planches," including plate count, at beginning of each volume.

Rare Book copy: Full stained leather binding.

Braunrot & Hardesty Doig. Encyclopédie méthodique (Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century, 327 (1995): 1-153), p. 131-140

Brunet II, col. 974

Gift; Elizabeth Peltz Hamilton
Table of contents: title: Tome premier; title: Tome second; title: Tome troisième; title: Tome quatrième; title: Tome cinquième; title: Tome sixième; title: Tome septieme; title: Tome huitieme.