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Book title:

Encyclopédie, by [Encyclopédie]

Keywords: Encyclopaedia, Philosophie, Reference works

Parisian category: Dictionnaires des Arts, &c.

Acquired: between 63 and 995 copies

Sold and Given: between 171 and 938 copies

Returns: between 9 and 18 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: Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers
Edition type (by origin): Swiss-International editions

Author(s): [Encyclopédie]
Editor(s): Alembert, Jean le Rond [d']; Diderot, Denis
Language(s): French
Publication: Geneva; Neuchâtel [Lyons; Neuchâtel]: [Joseph Duplain; Panckoucke; Société Typographique de Neuchâtel], 1778-1779
Details: 39 volumes, in-4°

LFB Catalogue 1787
STN Catalogue 1779
STN Catalogue 1785

Notes: Attribution - known edition. N.B. Although this third edition of the 'Encyclopédie', comprising 36 vols of text and 3 of plates, claimed to be published 'A Genève: chez Jean-Léonard Pellet; à Neuchâtel chez la Société typographique', it was in reality, as Robert Darnton has shown, produced on behalf of Joseph Duplain and his associates in several different printshops. According to the STN's 'Banque des ouvriers' for 1776-9 the STN produced volumes 6, 15, 19, 24, and 35. Purchases of paper for these volumes have also been traced by Darnton ('Business of Enlightenment', pp. 190-1). Based on the STN's copy of Duplain's subscription register (BPUN MS 1220), supplemented by other documents, Darnton has reconstructed and mapped the distribution in Europe of Duplain’s 8,011 subscriptions, mostly sold to booksellers (Business of Enlightenment, Appendix B). Our figures do not draw on this source and only account for copies which went through the regular accounts of the STN.

Full title: Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire universel raisonné des connoissances humaines
Edition type (by origin): Other Swiss editions

Author(s): [Encyclopédie]
Language(s): French
Publication: Yverdon: F.-B. de Felice, 1770-1776
Details: 58 volumes, in-4°

Notes: Attribution - manuscript information. Volume information - 1-42 text, 43-8 supplement, 49-58 planches.

Full title: [Encyclopédie - 2nd Folio edition]
Edition type (by origin): Place of publication unknown

Author(s): [Encyclopédie]
Language(s): French
Publication: n.pl. [?]
Details: 1 volume

Notes: Attribution - edition not identified. For a publishing history of the various editions of the 'Encyclopédie’ see Darnton, 'The Business of Enlightenment'.

Full title: [Encyclopédie - Octavo]
Edition type (by origin): Place of publication unknown

Author(s): [Encyclopédie]
Language(s): French
Publication: n.pl. [?]
Details: 1 volume

LFB Catalogue 1787

Notes: Attribution - edition not identified. For a publishing history of the various editions of the 'Encyclopédie’ see Darnton, 'The Business of Enlightenment'.

Full title: [Encyclopédie - Table analytique et raisonnée des matieres contenues...]
Edition type (by origin): Place of publication unknown

Author(s): [Encyclopédie]
Language(s): French
Publication: n.pl. [?]
Details: 1 volume

Notes: N.B. Along with the ‘Description des Arts’, the STNs edition of the ‘Encyclopédie’ 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 of the various editions, but data given should be considered incomplete. Because of this, no attempt has been made to give assumed printing runs and dates. For a more complete publishing history see Darnton ‘The Business of Enlightenment’.