Theatre architecture & stage machines.
Subtitle: Engravings from the Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts, et des métiers.
By: Edited by Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert.
Contributors: Diderot, Denis, 1713-1784, ed.; Alembert, Jean Le Rond d', 1717-1783, ed.
Edition: [New ed.]
Publisher: B. Blom
Published: 1969
Place of publication: New York
Language: fre
Number of pages: 89
Subjects: Theater architecture; Architecture -- Early works to 1800
Notes: Eighty of the 89 plates reproduced are taken from the 10th v. of the series of plates published at Paris between 1762 and 1772 under title Recueil de planches, sur les sciences, les arts libéraux, et les arts méchaniques, avec leur explication. Nine plates are reproduced from Supplément à l'Encyclopédie published at Amsterdam, 1776-77.
Text in French with introductory material in English.