As New. No Jacket as Issued. Hardcover. As New/No Jacket as Issued. Compact edition is a reduced facsimile (4 reduced original pages per page) which comprises 5 thick elephant folio volumes beautifully bound in burgundy buckram with gilt titling on the spine and covers, 4 text volumes and one plates volume.Most of the 71, 818 articles in the Encyclopédie were written by Diderot and d'Alembert. Other contributors included Rousseau, Voltaire, Montesquieu, Baron d'Holbach, Necker, Turgot, Buffon and other known writers of the day.
