RECUEIL DE PLANCHES, SUR LES SCIENCES, LES ARTS LIBÉRAUX,
ET LES ARTS MÉCHANIQUES, AVEC LEUR EXPLICATION.
All pages in this book are original text pages from copies of the volumes of plates for Diderot’s Encyclopédie, which appeared between 1762 and 1771. The image collages were assembled using copper engravings from these volumes. The available material allowed for the creation of 6 copies; with regard to the original pages and engravings used, each copy is one of a kind.
Five texts are printed over the old material: a quotation from Italo Calvino’s Il Barone Rampante that mentions Diderot’s Encyclopédie, and four of the encyclopedia’s keywords as well as the opening passages of the associated entries: ABEILLE, ARBRE, BOIS, JARDIN. Design & production: Peter Malutzki.
Paper over board, with title label, in clamshell box, 32 pages, 20,3/32,7 cm,
6 numbered and signed copies. Flörsheim 2023.