BOOK - by Ado Kyrou - André Balland ed 1975 - Hardback / Har - Lot 617

BOOK - by Ado Kyrou - André Balland ed 1975 - Hardback / Hardback - 180 pages. - 30 x 21.5 cm. THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE POSTCARD. by definition, a postcard is a small sheet of cardboard with one side illustrated and the other used for correspondence. A popular collector's item, postcards first appeared around 1860, and were admitted to international service under the Treaty of Berne in 1874. The Golden Age was short-lived, and the card reached its peak during the first 25 years; 25 years of extraordinary pieces, perfectly described and commented on in this well-illustrated book: the precursors, the cartophiles, why the postcard?history, politics, religion, the Bonnot gang, political cartoons, wars, military life, the 1914-1918 war, the Fatherland, news, daily life, monsters, shows, advertising, fashion, love, women, eroticism, great illustrators and more...