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Title: Print shop
Original Title: Imprimerie
Volume and Page: Vol. 8 (1765), p. 624
Author: Unknown
Translator: IML Donaldson [University of Edinburgh and Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh]
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Citation (MLA): "Print shop." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by IML Donaldson. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2019. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0001.272>. Trans. of "Imprimerie," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 8. Paris, 1765.
Citation (Chicago): "Print shop." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by IML Donaldson. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0001.272 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Imprimerie," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 8:624 (Paris, 1765).

Print shop is what tanners call a large wooden vat into which skins are put to ‘redden’; this process is also called putting them into tanning. [1] See Tanner.

Notes

1. Coudrement – soaking skins in a solution of oak-galls to tan them.