The World in a Box: The Story of an Eighteenth-Century Picture Encyclopedia - Anke Te Heesen - Books - The University of Chicago Press - 9780226322872 - May 1, 2002
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The World in a Box: The Story of an Eighteenth-Century Picture Encyclopedia 2nd edition

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The picture encyclopedia in question was a popular work invented by preacher-turned-publisher Johann Siegmund Stoy in 18th century Germany. This study of an individual object provides an unusual perspective on the German bourgeois enlightenment

232 pages, 48 halftones, 8 line drawings

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released May 1, 2002
ISBN13 9780226322872
Publishers The University of Chicago Press
Pages 244
Dimensions 264 × 381 × 16 mm   ·   358 g
Language English  
Translator Hentschel, Ann M.

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