1697

Source:

Title: Description des arts et métiers
Authors: G. Filleau des Billettes
Publisher: -
Printer: -
Illustrator: -
Engraver: Louis Simonneau
Location: Paris
Year: 1696–1697
Links: [Link].

Unpublished plates for articles by for the Description des arts et métiers. The manuscript is in: Newberry Library, Chicago, Case Wing Ms. Z 4029.225.
The text was never printed but plates were engraved by Louis Simonneau and there are sets of proofs at the BN, Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal, St Brides (London, UK), as well as the Newberry in Chicago where the MS for the text is.
The year 1697 is stated on the engraving.

Technique:

Engraving

Publications

Salomon Bayet Claire (1970) ‘Un préambule théorique à une Académie des Arts. Académie royale des Sciences (1693-1696). Présentation et textes.’ Revue d'histoire des sciences et de leurs applications, tome 23, n°3, pp. 229-250. [PDF]

James Mosley (2013) ‘A note on Gilles Filleau des Billettes’, Typography Papers, 9, pp 87-90.

Ad Stijnman (2012) Engraving and Etching 1400-2000: A History of the Development of Manual Intaglio Printmaking Process, Archetype Publications Ltd. (figures 79 and 248).