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- catalog abstract ""This is a story 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, paste them onto cards, and arrange those cards in ordered compartments - the whole world filed in a box of images."--Page 4 of cover.".
- catalog alternative "Weltkasten. English".
- catalog contributor b12513268.
- catalog coverage "Germany Intellectual life 18th century.".
- catalog created "2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
- catalog description ""This is a story 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, paste them onto cards, and arrange those cards in ordered compartments - the whole world filed in a box of images."--Page 4 of cover.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-226) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: "A Storehouse of the Finest Materials" -- 1. The Work and Its Author -- 2. From the Manufacture of Books to the Pedagogical Cabinet -- 3. Sources and Structure of the Picture Academy for the Young -- 4. Man and His Image in the Eighteenth Century -- 5. The Box and Collecting -- 6. The Box and Its Uses -- Conclusion: The World Boxed In, Then and Now -- App. Bibliographic Record of the Picture Academy.".
- catalog extent "xii, 237 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0226322866 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0226322874 (pbk : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "2002.".
- catalog language "eng ger".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chicago : University of Chicago Press,".
- catalog spatial "Germany Intellectual life 18th century.".
- catalog spatial "Germany".
- catalog spatial "Germany.".
- catalog subject "033/.1 21".
- catalog subject "AG27.W433 H44 2002".
- catalog subject "Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries, German History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Encyclopedias and dictionaries, German History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Enlightenment Germany History 18th century.".
- catalog subject "Enlightenment Germany.".
- catalog subject "Material culture Germany History 18th century.".
- catalog subject "Picture dictionaries, German History.".
- catalog subject "Visual communication Germany History 18th century.".
- catalog subject "Weltkasten History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: "A Storehouse of the Finest Materials" -- 1. The Work and Its Author -- 2. From the Manufacture of Books to the Pedagogical Cabinet -- 3. Sources and Structure of the Picture Academy for the Young -- 4. Man and His Image in the Eighteenth Century -- 5. The Box and Collecting -- 6. The Box and Its Uses -- Conclusion: The World Boxed In, Then and Now -- App. Bibliographic Record of the Picture Academy.".
- catalog title "The world in a box : the story of an eighteenth-century picture encyclopedia / Anke te Heesen ; translated by Ann M. Hentschel.".
- catalog title "Weltkasten. English".
- catalog type "text".