Vystavka Angliyskikh Plakatov Velikoy Voiny v Imperatorskoy Akademii Khudozhestv, Otkrytaya 1-go Maya 1916 g. [Exhibition of English Posters of the Great War in the Imperial Academy of Arts, Opened on May 1, 1916].

Petrograd, [Tip. Aktc. O-va Izd. Dela "Kopeyka"], 1916.

Rare.

In good condition, slightly warped book binding, small tear and stains on the cover, owner's mark on the first page, slightly water-stained to page margins. The copy contains press cutting. Exhibition ticket us glued to p. 3.

These posters were so well designed that people, for the first time in the history, started to collect them and display at exhibitions.

This exhibition displayed English propaganda posters, uniforms of the British Army and military postcards.

The common version of exhibition catalogue includes descriptions of 217 English posters. Our copy has also 32 thematic postcard sections and illustrated with original propaganda poster postcards (on black thin paper without legend).

The catalogue also contains three articles: England and Military Posters by Polish writer and anti-communist Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski (1876-1945), First Contacts and Acquaintances between Englishmen and Russia by writer and journalist Ivan Bozheryanov (1852-1919) and A Brief History of the English Army Organization by Vladimir Khristoforovich Kazin.

Admission fess from the exhibition were donated to the Army Medical Services. They were headed by the Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (1854-1920), the president of the Academy of Fine Arts, where the exhibition held.

We couldn't trace any copy of this edition (small or enlarged version) in USA or UK via OCLC. National Library of Czech Republic has one copy.