The world in a box
Subtitle: the story of an eighteenth-century picture encyclopedia
By: Anke te Heesen ; translated by Ann M. Hentschel.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
Subjects: Weltkasten -- History; Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries, German -- History and criticism; Encyclopedias and dictionaries, German -- History and criticism; Picture dictionaries, German -- History; Material culture -- Germany -- History -- 18th century; Visual communication -- Germany -- History -- 18th century; Enlightenment -- Germany; Germany -- Intellectual life -- 18th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-226) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: List of Illustrations vii; title: Acknowledgments xi; title: Introduction: "A Storehouse of the Finest Materials" 3; title: BOOK; title: 1 The Work and Its Author 13; title: 2 From the Manufacture of Books to the Pedagogical Cabinet 42; title: IMAGE; title: 3 Sources and Structure of the Picture Academy for the Young 65; title: 4 Man and His Image in the Eighteenth Century 105; title: BOX; title: 5 The Box and Collecting 135; title: 6 The Box and Its Uses 163; title: Conclusion: The World Boxed In, Then and Now 193; title: Appendix: Bibliographic Record of the Picture Academy 197; title: Bibliography 203; title: Index 227.