Fresh and Joyful

ROMI. Fresh and Joyful. Paris, Éditions de Paris, [1956]. 8vo, illustrated publisher's wrappers. First edition, first volume of the 'Copies Conformes' series. Colored cover with vivid illustration by Préjelan depicting a vivandière of the Great War, taken from La Vie Parisienne of 1915. Work dedicated to the analysis of war propaganda and the mechanisms of popular consensus-building during conflicts. Romi, historian of the unusual and eclectic collector, offers here rare iconographic documentation on French patriotic rhetoric. Copy in good general condition with normal patina of time. A significant document for the study of war communication and the collective imagination of the early twentieth century.