Encyclopaedia of Diderot and Alembert, Maison de l’Outil et de la Pensee Ouvriere, Troyes, France

Silk manufacture with woman reeling silk and plan of the Piedmont silk reel, plate from the Encyclopaedia of Diderot and Alembert, first edition, published 1751, 35 volumes, in the library of the Maison de l’Outil et de la Pensee Ouvriere, with over 32,000 books, specialising in manual labour, housed in the Hotel de Mauroy, built c. 1560, in Troyes, Aube, Grand Est, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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Silk manufacture with woman reeling silk and plan of the Piedmont silk reel, plate from the Encyclopaedia of Diderot and Alembert, first edition, published 1751, 35 volumes, in the library of the Maison de l’Outil et de la Pensee Ouvriere, with over 32,000 books, specialising in manual labour, housed in the Hotel de Mauroy, built c. 1560, in Troyes, Aube, Grand Est, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen