I’m very late to learning about Albert Robida. See this wikipedia link.
The iPod foreseen in the 1800s!
Here, I’m just going to thank Laura Fulton for her post that introduced me to Robida and provide some links to his work.
Albert Robida and visions of the future
Videoconferencing in 1883-1892: Albert Robida’s Téléphonoscope
eBooks:
Yester-year by Albert Robida
The End of Books (La Fin Des Livres) [1894]
Internet Archive (PDF, ePub, Kindle):
“Yester-year”; ten centuries of toilette from the French of A. Robida (1892)
La grande mascarade parisienne. Texte et dessins par A. Robida ([1881?-84?])
Contes pour les bibliophiles (1895)
Les vieilles villes d’Espagne, notes et souvenirs (1880)
La Vieille France, texte, dessins et lithographies: La Touraine (1900)
Les vieilles villes des Flandres (1900)
Mesdames nos aieules : dix siecles d’elegances (1800)
Un caricaturiste prophète. La guerre telle qu’elle est (1916)
Paris de siècle en siècle; le coeur de Paris, splendeurs et souvenirs ([1896])
French sites (with some great PDF links in them):
Albert Robida : auteur et illustrateur de génie
Téléchargements – Downloads
Albert Robida: voyageur du temps et de l’espace
And some links courtesy of Laura:
The End of Books web version (English)
The End of Books two-column web version (English)
Albert Robida (1848-1926), visionnaire du XXe siècle (French)
Glad you found something interesting.
This is a nice collection of links, and it’s actually quite useful to have them in one place.
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some years ago I have seen in Lithuenia the 1st edition of La vightieme siecle. It is interesting what would be the price today…!!