1763:  Encyclopédie Diderot et D'Alembert

Encyclopédie Diderot et D'Alembert. Plate II.
James Mosley states (1995, page 24*): 'The plates of the Encyclopédie appeared much later than the text. Volume 3 of the plates, which includes the illustrations for the article caracteres d'imprimerie, was not published until 1763 (Richard N. Schwab and Walter E. Rex, Inventory of Diderot's Encyclopé, VII: Inventory of the plates, Oxford, 1984; Studies on Voltaire and the 18th Century, 223).

James Mosley notices (1995, pages 356-357) that: 'But there is confusion in the plates of the Encyclopédie, where Plate II, figs 2 and 3, of the section on typefounding (Caracteres d'imprimerie) shows the two parts of the mould with the wire for the nick in carriage of the top half, an arrangement that would make the type with the nick 'underneath', like British type. This seems to be an error in the plate. According to a caption for the following plate the wire was in the carriage of the bottom half (plate II, suitte, fig. 17), like that of Simonneau and the Manuel typographique.'