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Book title:

Descriptions des arts et métiers

Keywords: Encyclopaedia, Industry, Manufacturing, Reference works, Trades

Parisian category: Dictionnaires des Arts, &c.

Printed: between 0 and 1,000 copies

Acquired: between 4 and 201 copies

Sold and Given: between 1,292 and 8,161 copies

Returns: between 0 and 143 copies

N.B. Lower and upper limits (where given) are calculated by treating each incomplete set - i.e. each set containing some but not all volumes of the edition - as 0 and 1 respectively. Click 'events for this book' below for details.

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Editions:

Full title: Description des arts et métiers
Edition type (by origin): Place of publication unknown

Publication: n.pl. [?]
Details: 1 volume

Notes: Attribution - various copies of the Parisian edition of the 'Description of arts' used for the production of the STNs edition. Volume details not given.

Full title: Schauplatz der Künste und Handwerke, oder vollständige Beschreibung derselben
Edition type (by origin): Place of publication unknown

Original title: Descriptions des arts et métiers
Original language: French
Language(s): German
Publication: n.pl. [?]
Details: 1 volume, in-4°

Notes: Attribution - German translation of the Description des arts et métiers, volumes traded not stated.

Full title: Descriptions des arts et métiers, faites ou approuvées par Messieurs de l'Académie royale des sciences de Paris
Edition type (by origin): STN editions

Editor(s): Bertrand, Jean-Elie
Language(s): French
Publication: Neuchâtel: Société Typographique de Neuchâtel, 1771-1783
Details: 19 volumes, in-4°

LFB Catalogue 1787
STN Catalogue 1777
STN Catalogue 1779
STN Catalogue 1785

Notes: Attribution - known STN edition. N.B. Along with the ‘Encyclopédie’, the STNs edition of the ‘Descriptions des Arts’ was a lengthy and complicated undertaking that, largely due to subscription sales, did not always pass through the society’s accounts in the same fashion of ‘normal’ books. The FBTEE project methodology has allowed us to reconstruct many of the sales, but data given should be considered incomplete. Because of this, no attempt has been made to give assumed printing runs and dates.

Full title: Description des arts et métiers
Edition type (by origin): French editions

Language(s): French
Publication: Paris
Details: 41 volumes, in-folio

Notes: Attribution - various copies of the Parisian edition of the 'Description of arts' used for the production of the STNs edition. Volume details given.

Full title: Descriptions des arts et métiers [planches]
Edition type (by origin): STN editions

Editor(s): Bertrand, Jean-Elie
Language(s): French
Publication: Neuchâtel: Société Typographique de Neuchâtel
Details: 19 volumes

Notes: Attribution - known STN edition. N.B. Along with the ‘Encyclopédie’, the STNs edition of the ‘Description des Arts’ was a lengthy and complicated undertaking that, largely due to subscription sales, did not always pass through the society’s accounts in the same fashion of ‘normal’ books. The FBTEE project methodology has allowed us to reconstruct many of the sales, but data given should be considered incomplete. Because of this, no attempt has been made to give assumed printing runs and dates. The STNs recording of their shipments of the 'planches' was especially inconsistent and thus the data incomplete.

Full title: Descriptions des arts et métiers [unfinished volume 20]
Edition type (by origin): STN editions

Editor(s): Bertrand, Jean-Elie
Language(s): French
Publication: n.pl. [Neuchâtel]: [Société Typographique de Neuchâtel]
Details: 1 volume, in-4°

Notes: Attribution - as the STN ceded their print run of the 'Descriptions des arts' to Moutard in Paris in 1785, they also gave 'le manuscrit de N et les epreuves de O & P' of the unfinished 20th volumes, which Moutard completed and finished several years later.