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University of Chicago Press
Language
English
Pages
237

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Subjects
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 life
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Germany
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18th century

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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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-226) and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
033/.1
Library of Congress
AG27.W433 H44 2002, AG27.W433H44 2002

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Pagination
xii, 237 p. :
Number of pages
237

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OL3954066M
ISBN 10
0226322866, 0226322874
LCCN
2001052763
OCLC/WorldCat
48508713
Library Thing
1482746
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3604150
712153

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