Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers ( Encyclopaedia, or a Systematic Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts, and Crafts) is an encyclopedia published in France between 1751-1772 and edited by Denis Diderot. This collection consists of engraving plates by Robert Bénard (1734-1777) for the 1763 edition. The plates were likely pulled from one volume of the Encyclopédie.

Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers (Encyclopaedia, or a Systematic Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts, and Crafts) is an encyclopedia published in France between 1751-1772 and edited by Denis Diderot. Robert Benard (1734-1777) was a French engraver who engraved more than 1800 plates for Diderot's Encyclopédie.

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