Diderot & d'Alembert Encyclopedia
Complete set of boards on glasswork and glazier
18th century
9 pages of text on the description of the glassworks boards and 1 page on the description of the glazier's boards
58 boards including 15 folding boards
Drawings by Radel and Bourgeois and engraved by Bernard
- Wooden glassware or small glassware with swivel
Small glassware, such as drinking glasses & other utensils
- Wooden glassware or large glassware with glass or dishes, called a pivot glassware
- Bottled glassware
Heated with coal
French Glassworks: explanation of the plans, sections & elevations of the Seve glassworks near Paris, built to be heated with coal, & explanations of the operations for making bottles
English glassware
- Glazier
Excerpts from the boards:
- Plan and section of a small glassmaking kiln with a pivot and various operations relating to its construction
- Molds and proportions of bricks for the construction of the oven
- The operation of stirring the composition in the melting pot, of collecting the material or post, of rolling it on the marble, of blowing it into the mold, and other operations relating to the making of a glass
- The operation of removing from the ark the ironwork filled with different glassware to take them to the store
- Large flat glassware. Interior of a hall and different operations of the window glassworks
- Perspective view of the arbour and the glaie, and view of the spoiler for the incision of the hump; the operation of rolling the glass with the ponti
- The operation of picking the fella and laying it on the trough
- The operation of rolling the 1st and 2nd hot and blowing it
- The operation of rolling the 3rd hot and forming the neck of the hump
- The operation of plotting the dish and baking it in the oven
- Various utensils from large glassware weavers into dishes
- The operation of forming the neck of the wall and blowing it to inflate it and make it take the shape of an egg
- Glassware in bottles. Section along the length of one of the four halls and its furnace of the royal glassworks of Seve
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Good used condition
A few rare minor defects of use
Some rare freckles
Dimensions: 41 x 26.5 cm
