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With this book, I have chosen to show off my favourite and most interesting and rare postcards, ranging across many subjects and several different methods of printing and styling. I chose the title of the book to describe both the act of selecting the high rank of the cards and also the way a barrow-boy [...]

In the early decades of the last century, the majority of shops were run as a family affair by people who knew their customers and were proud of their businesses. They often lived at or near their shops and the enterprise was at the centre of their lives.These cards show that professional photographers gained work [...]

Guise is the way in which we present ourselves – the way we dress, or do our hair, or alter our manner, our behaviour, deliberately. It becomes disguise when the aim is to avoid entirely being recognised. In this collection of postcards from a century ago, a wide range of occasions for changing one’s appearance [...]

Before photographically illustrated magazines or newspapers, before television and facebook networks existed, in the fi rst decade or so of the twentieth century, picture postcards were sent by the hundreds of millions worldwide bearing messages between friends and families, and providing images of peoples, places and events to inform and entertain the recipients. My interest [...]

Before photographically illustrated magazines or newspapers, before television and facebook networks existed, in the fi rst decade or so of the twentieth century, picture postcards were sent by the hundreds of millions worldwide bearing messages between friends and families, and providing images of peoples, places and events to inform and entertain the recipients. My interest [...]

Before photographically illustrated magazines or newspapers, before television and facebook networks existed, in the fi rst decade or so of the twentieth century, picture postcards were sent by the hundreds of millions worldwide bearing messages between friends and families, and providing images of peoples, places and events to inform and entertain the recipients. My interest [...]

Before photographically illustrated magazines or newspapers, before television and facebook networks existed, in the first decade or so of the twentieth century, picture postcards were sent by the hundreds of millions worldwide bearing messages between friends and families, and providing images of peoples, places and events to inform and entertain the recipients. My interest in [...]

I choose to use the simple word as a title for this book as it suits the style of others in my series, but it is not really accurate as there are few images of the act of hunting; most show the end, the result of the hunt, and sometimes the preparation beforehand. The principal [...]

This book of postcards treats fish as food for mankind – I like the sentence in the 1911 Britannica: ‘From time immemorial fish have been captured by various forms of spears, nets, hooks and more elaborate apparatus, and a historical description of the methods and appliances that have been used would comprise a considerable portion [...]

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