Fig. 1: Examples of paratextual devices in pre-19th century imaginary worlds. | Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

Fig. 1: Examples of paratextual devices in pre-19th century imaginary worlds.

From: Charting the rise of imaginary worlds in history

Fig. 1

From left to right and top to bottom: The first occurrence of a map of imaginary worlds in Wolf’s list, in Coropaedia by Caspar Stiblinus (1555); the first occurrence of a glossary in Wolf’s list, in The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins by Robert Paltock (1751; date of edition reviewed: 1783); first occurrence of a bestiary in Wolf’s list, in Nonsense songs by Edward Lear (1871); the map with the highest number of locations (~400) in A Father’s Memoirs of His Child by Thomas Williams Malkin (1806); a map of Janseina in Relation du pays de Janséine by Le Père Zacharie de Lisieux (1660); a map of the Underground in The Goddess of Atvatabar by William R. Bradshaw (1892).

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