Liverpool University Press: Books: Inventory of Diderot's 'Encyclopédie'

Book

1971

December 31st, 1971

FormatHardback

£100.00

Table of Contents
Section Title	Page	Price
Cover	1
Title Page	6
Copyright Page	7
Table of Contents	10
Acknowledgments	14
Introduction	18
1. The contents of the inventory	22
2. Designation of categories	27
3. Textual problems	30
4. Problems of attribution	35
5. The problem of Diderot's articles	39
6. Other matters of attribution	48
7. The editorial material in the first eight volumes	56
8. Ornaments in the text	62
9. Editions bearing the Paris-Neufchastel imprint	64
10. Variants in titles and signs of attribution in the first three editions of volumes I-III	88
11. The Riverside counterfeit volumes I-VII and their relationship with the original editions and the Geneva folio edition	95
12. Table of variants in the original edition, the Geneva edition, and the Riverside volumes	117
Appendix A. Collation of the Discours préliminaire, the *Explication détaillée du systême des connaissances humaines, and the ·Systême figuré des connoissances humaines of Diderot's 1750 prospectus	124
Appendix B. The censored texts and the cancels	130
Appendix C. The article Constitution Unigenitus	152
Appendix D. The censored text of the article Gomaristes	187
Appendix E. Variants in later editions ofthe Discourspréliminaire, the Avertissement of volume III, and the Eloges of Montesquieu, Mallet, and Dumarsais	192
Appendix F. Variants in Encyclopédie articles republished elsewhere	206

Inventory of Diderot's 'Encyclopédie'