The World in a Box: The Story of an Eighteenth-Century Picture Encyclopedia
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Book Description
This is a book about a box that contained the world. The box was the Picture Academy for the Young, a popular encyclopedia in pictures invented by preacher-turned-publisher Johann Siegmund Stoy in eighteenth-century Germany. Children were expected to cut out the pictures from the Academy, glue them onto cards, and arrange those cards in ordered compartments-the whole world filed in a box of images... More
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Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Binding | Hardcover (2 editions) |
Reading Level | Uncategorized |
# of Pages | 244 |
ISBN-10 | 0226322866 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0226322865 |
Publication Date | 05/01/2002 |
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About Ann M. Hentschel (Translator) : Ann M. Hentschel is a published translator. Published credits of Ann M. Hentschel include The World in a Box: The Story of an Eighteenth-Century Picture Encyclopedia.
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