Michel-Antoine David

– 17 March 1769, Paris) was an 18th-century French printer, publisher and Encyclopédiste during the Age of Enlightenment.

On 2 May 1732, he became a member of the guild of booksellers and printers of Paris and on 1 September 1733 he received his master's certificate.

[2] David was one of the four publishers of the Encyclopédie whose editors were Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert.

The other publishers were André le Breton, Antoine-Claude Briasson, and Laurent Durand.

He himself wrote two articles for the Encyclopédie: Catalogue and Droit de copie (see wikisource infra)

Frontispiece of the first volume of the Encyclopédie published in 1751. Among the printers "David l'aîné, rue Saint-Jacques", à la Plume d'Or (Michel-Antoine David called David l'aîné)