Prospectus et memoires de l'Encyclopedie methodique. Volume I: Prospectus general precede de la Preface au Grand Vocabulaire francais in Bloomington, MN

The Encyclopedie methodique (1782-1832), the result of a fifty-year editorial odyssey launched by Charles-Joseph Panckoucke, is one of the successors to the Enlightenment-era Encyclopedie. The Prospectus general that introduces it, the foundation of the undertaking, describes its methodology.