Papers of Giles Barber relating to Diderot and d’Alembert eds., Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts, et des Métiers (Paris, from 1751), 1991-1998 and n.d. [c.1981-1998]

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MS. 9101/46

Comprises:

'Acquiring Enlightenment: Oxford and the Encyclopédie', draft essay by Barber describing the early issues and editions of Diderot and d’Alembert eds., Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts, et des Métiers (Paris, from 1751) in Oxford and how and when they were acquired, [published in D. Garrioch ed., The Culture of the Book: Essays from two Hemispheres in Honour of Wallace Kirsopp (Melbourne: Bibliographical Society of Australia, 1999)], and related papers, 1998 and n.d. [c.1981-1998]
'Open University and Encyclopédie', correspondence and papers relating to Barber's contribution to an Open University course on Diderot and d’Alembert's Encyclopédie in the Enlightenment, 1991 and n.d. [c.1991]
'Encyclopédie, Schwab Inventory', photocopies of extracts from 'Inventory of Diderot's Encyclopédie' by R.N. Schwab, W.E. Rex and J. Lough, published in Theodore Besterman ed., Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, Vol. LXXX (Geneva, 1971), and related papers, n.d. [c.1998]

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MS. 9101/46

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