1763:  Encyclopédie Diderot et D'Alembert

Encyclopédie Diderot et D'Alembert. Plate I.
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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 Encyclopédie, VII: Inventory of the plates, Oxford, 1984; Studies on Voltaire and the 18th Century, 223).