The Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert
For the convenience of students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, we provide here selected pages from the copy of the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert in the the Department of Special Collections, Memorial Library.
Selected Images
From volume 1
- Frontispiece
- Title page
- Foldout diagram - the system of human knowledge
From volume 7 of the Planches (plates)
- Plate 1 - typesetting, composing stick, and the words "GLOIRE à DIEU. Honneur au Roi. Salut aux ARMES."
Special Collections also holds the "nouvelle édition" in 36 volumes published in Geneva by Pellet in 1777-1779 and the Encyclopédie mèthodique, ou par ordre de matières par une Société de gens de lettres, de savans et d’artistes in 194 volumes, a new and enlarged edition of Diderot’s Encyclopédie, arranged as a system of separate dictionaries and published by Charles Panckoucke, 1782-1792, continued by Henri Agasse, 1792-1813, and Mme. la veuve Agasse, 1813-1832.
These images are meant only to supplement other major electronic resources concerning the Encyclopédie, including
- the ARTFL searchable full-text version
- The Encyclopedia of Diderot and d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project, including facsimiles in both French and English of the "map of the system of human knowledge," and
- digitized versions of various editions of the Encyclopédie available through Gallica: La Bibliothèque numérique of the Bibliothèque nationale de France.