Encyclopedie frontispice full

1764

Encyclopedie's frontispiece, full version. Engraving by Benoît Louis Prévost. Title page of the ' Encyclopedia or Reasoned Dictionary of Sciences, Arts and Crafts ( Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers in the original title) a vast encyclopedia published in the eighteenth century, in French, by a substantial group of intellectuals under the direction of Dider