Descriptions des Arts et Métiers
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF TRADES PUBLISHED 1761-1788
Descriptions des Arts et Metiers; Description des Métiers; Descriptions des Métiers; Descriptions of the Arts and Trades; Description of the Arts and Trades
Descriptions des Arts et Métiers, faites ou approuvées par messieurs de l'Académie Royale des Sciences (French for "Descriptions of the Arts and Trades, made under the direction of the gentlemen of the Royal Academy of Sciences"), is a collection of books on crafts that was published by the Parisian Royal Academy of Sciences between 1761 and 1788. The full series comprises 113 folio volumes along with three supplements, and provide detailed accounts of a wide range of handcraft and manufacturing processes carried out in France at that time.