Christmas Cards their Origin and Manufacture 1897

Title : Christmas Cards their Origin and Manufacture 1897  
Author : Leily Bingen
Source : Windsor Magazine
Year Published : 1898
Page Count : 7
Image Count : 8
Word Count : 3,942
File Size in MB : 3.8
File Type : PDF

"Imagine a thousand bulky volumes of Christmas cards, musty and dusty albums, catalogues and sample-books, ranged on long shelves and blocking up passages and offices. This was the sight that met my gaze when I made my way to the house of Mr. Jonathan King, whose unique collection ranges from the first Christmas cards printed in the kingdom to the artistic productions of 1897. What I specially wanted to see were those early efforts of some fifty years ago, which indirectly led to the present enormous trade in cards. At the same time it was..."