Banaś Paweł- Orbis Pictus. The world of the old postal card [rich illustrative material][Wroclaw 2005].

Wrocław 2005/ Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego/ first edition/21.5x33.5cm/s.512/ 762 color and black-and-white reproductions in the text/ binding, cardboard/ very good condition-, minor rubbing of binding, upper edge of pages slightly dirty

First edition

Rich illustrative material

Postcard. Can be a separate work of graphic art, a carrier of history, a collector's item. Piotr Banaś's book , "Orbis Pictus" is a unique, richly illustrated album presenting reproductions of over 750 postcards exclusively from Polish collections. It introduces the reader to both the world of the postcard : its volatility, development, creating artists, publishers, printers, buyers, senders and addressees, as well as the world on the postcard : full of didactic, patriotic, religious values, commemorating important dates and holidays, sometimes swaggering, rascally, filled with eroticism. Each time, it's a world that you want to explore and to which you want to return. A magnum opus for any philocartist.