Vanity Fair: a weekly show of political, social & literary wares… July - December

1870 Vanity Fair ART Henry Bulwer Frederick III of Prussia Illustrated COLOR

A rare printing of the first volume of the Vanity Fair Album. Vanity Fair is best known for full-page, color lithographs of world celebrities and dignitaries including artists, athletes, royalty, , scientists, authors, and scholars. More than 2000 of these images appeared, and they are considered the chief cultural legacy of the magazine, forming a pictorial record of the period. According to author and editor Jehu Junior,

"The Vanity Fair Portraits are and remain the only work of their kind ever attempted; and as such they must always hold a special and distinct place as a permanent record of men of eminence in the nineteenth century."

This 1870 edition includes 24 full page color plates of famous figures including

· Marquis of Westminster

· The Duke of Sutherland

· Lord Henry Gordon-Lennox

· Robert Montagu

· Prince of Prussia, Frederick III

· Henry Bulwer

Item number: #18941

Price: $795

JUNIOR, Jehu (pseud. Thomas Gibson Bowles)

Vanity Fair: a weekly show of political, social & literary wares… July - December

London: Vanity Fair Office, 1870.

Details:

· Collation:

o 270

o Wanting p. 155-158, 165-166; p. 167-168 present but damaged

o 24 lithograph engravings

· References: Jehu Junior, Vanity Fair Album: List of Cartoons and Volumes from the foundation of Vanity Fair in 1868

· Language: English

· Binding: Leather; tight and secure

· Size: ~14.25in X 9.5in (36.5cm x 24.5cm)

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