Main entry:

Recueil de planches sur les sciences, les arts liberaux, et les arts méchaniques, avec leur explication. Selections.

Title & Author:

Constructions de théatres.

Publication:

[Paris? : Briasson [and others]?, 1772?]

Description:

4, 8 p., ca. 125 leaves of plates in various foliation : ill., plans ; 38 cm.

Notes:
Title from spine (binder's title).
This work corresponds to the section on theather and stage machinery of the 10th v. (Neuvième livraison ou dixième volume) of 'Recueil de planches sur les sciences, les arts liberaux, et les arts méchaniques, avec leur explication' (Paris : Briasson [and others], 1772), with the exception of plate X in the section "Théâtres" that is only signed "Benard Fecit" where it reads "Dumont Del." and "Benard Fecit" in the 1st ed. The Recueil was issued over the course of eleven years as an accompanying series of illustrations to Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie, which began to appear in 1751.
Most plates read "Radel Del. ; Benard Fecit."
Théatres, contenant trente-huit planches à cause de sept doubles -- Machines de théatre, contenant quarante-neuf planches à cause de quatorze doubles & de quatre triples.

Subject:

Encyclopedias and dictionaries, French Early works to 1800.
Stage machinery.
Theaters.
Encyclopédies et dictionnaires français Ouvrages avant 1800.
Machines de théâtre.
stage machinery.
Encyclopedias and dictionaries, French.

Form/genre:

Early works.

Added entries:

Diderot, Denis, 1713-1784.
Alembert, Jean Le Rond d', 1717-1783.
Bénard, 1731-1794.
Encyclopédie.

Théatres, contenant trente-huit planches à cause de sept doubles
Machines de théâtre, contenant quarante-neuf planches à cause de quatorze doubles & de quatre triples

Holdings:

Location: Library main 72758
Call No.: 4361 GF1269; ID:86-B12091
Status: Available