A play on the French phrase for “General Delivery,” by versatile English artist Edmund George Fuller (1858-1940), whose talents were applied to seascapes, book plates, and lightly humorous postcards.
Lloyds Tea Company
Welcome the Postal Person
Women Who Love Beer
From a collection of Sapporo postcards that were taken from Sapporo posters, 1908-1939.
Sapporo Time
The occasions on which Japanese men enjoy beer, from early Sapporo beer advertising posters.
Samuil Marshak’s Pochta
In 1927, Samuil Marshak (1887-1964), a writer in the Soviet Union, published a children’s book about the post office. Pochta has since been republished many times, and illustrated by many illustrators, and translated into English as Hail to the Mail. The story follows a letter chasing a man around the world. These first two images, from the first edition, were created by Mikhail Tsekanovsky (1889-1965), who in 1929 made an animated film of the story.
The following cover and inside page fascinate me; the artist may, or may not, be Yury Korovin, but I cannot find any more information.
And then we have a 1988 edition with illustrations by Fedor Lemkul…
I love the mailman waiting to load his mail on the boat.
The British and American editions were translated by Richard Pevear and illustrated by Vladimir Radunsky.
All praise to Samuil Marshak, shown below in a family photo.
Neither snow…
“Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.”
– Inscription on the main New York City post office, adapted from Herodotus, Greek historian & traveler (484 – 430 BC)
