RECUEIL DE PLANCHES SUR LES SCIENCES, LES ARTS LIBERAUX, ET LES ARTS

(Cochin, Fragonard etc.). RECUEIL DE PLANCHES SUR LES SCIENCES, LES ARTS LIBERAUX, ET LES ARTS MECHANIQUES, AVEC LEUR EXPLICATION. The plates and explanatory text from the section of the Diderot Encyclopedia on "Dessein" (Drawing), 1763. Folio (c. 15 x 10 1/8 inches, 380 x 260 mm.), later wraps with the title page of the Section affixed as a paste-on. With 39 copper-engraved plates (actually 38, with the one double plate counted as two), 12 pages of text including an introduction and notes on each plate. The plates are by various artists, including several figure studies after Fragonard and Cochin. Plates show the design of a School of Drawing, drafting instruments, a double plate rendering of a pantograph, plans for a camera oscura, the parts of an articulated mannequin, numerous figure studies, and several plates showing the proportioate measurements of famous statues. All in Fine condition with only an occasional light spot of foxing, and no damage.