Marbled Paper
Marbled Paper

Author: Richard J. Wolfe

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9780812281880

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For 250 years after its introduction to Europe around 1600, the method of decorating paper known as marbling reigned supreme as the chief means of embellishing the fine work of hand-bookbinders. Richard J. Wolfe reconstructs the rise and fall of the craft and offers the most comprehensive account available of its history, techniques, and patterns. A publication of the A.S.W. Rosenbach Fellowship in Bibliography Series

Encyclopaedic Visions
Encyclopaedic Visions

Author: Richard Yeo

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2001-03-29

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 9780521651912

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Cultural history of Enlightenment encyclopaedias revealing Enlightenment debates concerning organisation and communication of knowledge.

Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment
Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment

Author: Michel Delon

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-12-04

Total Pages: 1512

ISBN-13: 1135959986

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This acclaimed translation of Michel Delon's Dictionnaire Europen des Lumires contains more than 350 signed entries covering the art, economics, science, history, philosophy, and religion of the Enlightenment. Delon's team of more than 200 experts from around the world offers a unique perspective on the period, providing offering not only factual information but also critical opinions that give the reader a deeper level of understanding. An international team of translators, editors, and advisers, under the auspices of the French Ministry of Culture, has brought this collection of scholarship to the English-speaking world for the first time.

The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-century Philosophy
The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-century Philosophy

Author: Knud Haakonssen

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 790

ISBN-13: 9780521867436

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This two-volume set presents a comprehensive and up-to-date history of eighteenth-century philosophy. The subject is treated systematically by topic, not by individual thinker, school, or movement, thus enabling a much more historically nuanced picture of the period to be painted.