The Authorized Images Famous Authors Seen Through Antique and Vintage Postcards: Omnibus Edition is Comprised of 5 Volumes

The Authorized Images Famous Authors Seen Through Antique and Vintage Postcards: Volume 1

[Introduction to (and History of) Literary Picture Postcards]

Volume One of Authorized Images is a comprehensive history of how the picture postcard came into existence. The Introduction then offers an overview of printed paper collectables which were the ancestors of postcards.

These precursors include, for instance, the carte-de-visite, greeting cards, trading cards, and printed envelopes.

Then the focus becomes more refined, examining the emergence of the specifically literary postcard, a category which includes, of course, portraits of authors, but, in addition, images of their homes, schools, graves, statues, relatives, lovers, monuments, as well as depictions of characters from their books.

Buyers are advised that minor formatting conflicts mean that some photo captions are carried over to a following page throughout the editions sold via eBook sites. Those wishing to buy all five Omnibus volumes of Authorized Images with ideal formatting can do so by purchasing the books from the author's personal website when you Google "Greg Gatenby".