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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1. Discolouration. English This scrapbook album gathers eighteen original Vanity Fair caricatures published between 1868 and 1900, accompanied by descriptive and biographical texts. The collection includes satirical portraits of politicians, aristocrats, military figures, writers, financiers and public personalities illustrated by celebrated Vanity Fair artists such as Spy and Ape. The album reflects the visual culture, humour and social commentary of late Victorian Britain and preserves the famous chromolithographic caricature tradition that made Vanity Fair one of the most influential illustrated magazines of the nineteenth century. Lord Rothschild; Walter Gilbey; Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery; John Hay Athole MacDonald; Marquis of Hartington; Walter William Read; Viscount Templeton; Cuthbert Larking; Charles Kearns Deane Tanner; William Bromley-Davenport; James Payn; Lord Revelstoke; Hugh Reginald Haweis; George Granville Bradley; G. A. Baird; James Brand; Charles Floquet; Frederick Charles Philips. …

Cloth. No Jacket. Fifth Edition. Hardback Fifth edition of the first ever Vanity Fair volume Disbound copy however the contents are still in the original publishers green cloth boards Gilt decorative border with gilt titles to the front bevelled edges and gilt titles to the spine There is a little fading to the boards with fraying to the top and base of the spine All edges gilt A complete collection of 48 chromolithographic plates featuring Statesmen Judges and Men of the Day and one woman Neat pencil inscription to the verso of the title page All plates are present and in good condition with just the occasional thumb mark and spot of foxing to the rest of the pages Disbound copy so pages are loose A fascinating copy with adverts of the time at the beginning of the booknbsp. book.…

hardcover. Zustand: good. First. 52 chromolithographs, each with an accompanying page of text. Green boards with gilt lettering and ornamentation. Gilt edges. Folio. London: Ranken and Co., 1877. As is, pages mostly detached but plates and boards in good condition. Lithography by Vincent Brooks Day & Son. after caricatures by "Spy" (Sir Leslie Ward) and "Ape" (Carlo Pelligrini). Complete. Foxing on title page and table of contents, light toning throughout. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son (illustrator).…

Zustand: Good. Small folios: 9.25 x 14 inches. Uniformly bound in publisher's green cloth with gilt stamping and edges. With 154 chromolithographs of the major figures of the day. The lithographs are from 1869-1871 issues.

London, "Vanity Fair" Office, (1869), (4) preliminary leaves, 48 colour lithographed plates with opposite commentary-page, all printed on 1 side only, original green cloth, decorated in gold, bevelled edges, all edges gilt, folio (36,8 x 24,7 cm.). = Rare complete series of the first volume. Vanity Fair was founded by Thomas Gibson Bowles (= Jehu Junior) in 1868. This first volume was published in 1869, and this magazine would continue through 1913. Bowles wrote much of the humorous and racy commentary in the early years. Despite presenting humorous caricatures of people, along with gossip about them, most people were flattered to be selected to be included in Vanity Fair. Binding partly stained and with incision on backstrip. Contents fine with some foxing.…