Sixteen in-folio plates enhanced with gouache... - Lot 92 - Thierry de Maigret

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Sixteen in-folio plates enhanced with gouache... - Lot 92 - Thierry de Maigret
Sixteen in-folio plates enhanced with gouache in an elegant frame, engraved by Jean Canocchi, are missing the plates XIII to XIX, and XXII to XXVIII, plate XXI engraved by Benard. 36 x 23.5 cm; 36 x 21.5 cm for 15 plates and 36 x 66 cm for one plate. HERALDIC Rare series of heraldic plates superbly enhanced with gouache from the Encyclopedia Diderot d'Alembert, in elegant frames. Denis DIDEROT & Jean Le Rond d'ALEMBERT, Encyclopedia, or Dictionnaire raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers, by a society of people of letters. It was in 1750 that Diderot distributed the prospectus announcing the publication of his future Encyclopedia, while the first volume of the latter was being prepared. The publication of this manifesto provoked a lively polemic and the Encyclopaedia was, throughout its publication, struck with the seal of censorship. A first ban was pronounced in February 1752. A royal decree declared that the Encyclopedia contained maxims "tending to destroy royal authority, to raise the foundations of error, corruption of morals, irreligion and disbelief"; the first two volumes were then sent to the pestle. Diderot and d'Alembert enjoyed the support of many personalities, especially literary personalities of the time: Voltaire, Malesherbes... The attacks against this monumental undertaking did not cease for all that. In 1757, following Damiens' attack on Louis XV, the police increased its vigilance against any book that might undermine the royal authority and religious dogma. In 1759, the Encyclopedia was condemned to be torn and burned by the executioner, and the royal privilege (permission to print) was suspended. This revocation was accompanied by a papal condemnation. The Encyclopedia, then published until volume VII, was then threatened with abandonment, to the great displeasure of the booksellers who had invested heavily in this undertaking. A new privilege was then granted to them, but it only concerned the publicati
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