An edition of The world in a box
(2002)
The world in a box
the story of an eighteenth-century picture encyclopedia
by Anke te Heesen
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Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries, German, Enlightenment, German Encyclopedias and dictionaries, German Picture dictionaries, History, History and criticism, Intellectual life, Material culture, Visual communication, Weltkasten, Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries, Encyclopedias and dictionaries, german, Encyclopedias and dictionaries, history and criticism, Picture dictionaries, Germany, intellectual lifePlaces
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The world in a box: the story of an eighteenth-century picture encyclopedia
2002, University of Chicago Press
in English
0226322866 9780226322865
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Table of Contents
Machine generated contents note: List of Illustrations vii
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: "A Storehouse of the Finest Materials" 3
BOOK
1 The Work and Its Author 13
2 From the Manufacture of Books to the Pedagogical Cabinet 42
IMAGE
3 Sources and Structure of the Picture Academy for the Young 65
4 Man and His Image in the Eighteenth Century 105
BOX
5 The Box and Collecting 135
6 The Box and Its Uses 163
Conclusion: The World Boxed In, Then and Now 193
Appendix: Bibliographic Record of the Picture Academy 197
Bibliography 203
Index 227.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-226) and index.
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