Marbled Paper

Marbled Paper
Author: Richard J. Wolfe
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 1990
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780812281880

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
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2001-03-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521651912

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
Total Pages: 1512
Release: 2013-12-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 1135959986

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
Total Pages: 790
Release: 2006
Genre: Electronic reference sources
ISBN: 9780521867436

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.

Literature and Encyclopedism in Enlightenment Britain

Literature and Encyclopedism in Enlightenment Britain
Author: Seth Rudy
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2014-10-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137411546

Literature and Encyclopedism in Enlightenment Britain tells the story of long-term aspirations to comprehend, record, and disseminate complete knowledge of the world. It draws on a wide range of literary and non-literary works from the early modern era and British Enlightenment.