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The Vanity Fair Album: a Show of Sovereigns, Statesmen, Judges, and Men of the Day: with notices by Jehu Junior. London: Vanity Fair, 1869-1908.
Vols.I-XXXVIII & XL only and Index in 41 volumes, 2° (355 x 230mm & 380 x 255mm). 2020 coloured plates by Carlo Pellegrini ('Ape'), James Tissot and Sir Leslie Ward ('Spy'). Original cloth, gilt (some volumes slightly rubbed, some leaves loose), g.e. Provenance: Edward Cecil Guiness (armorial bookplate in some vols.). -- And two volumes of Vanity Fair for 1876 with 29 plates. Sold as a periodical not subject to return.
Published by Thomas Gibson Bowles (1842-1922), Vanity Fair and Vanity Fair Album were among the most successful of caricature periodicals of the time, thanks to the efforts of innovative illustrators Pellegrini, who worked for Vanity Fair from 1865, Tissot from 1869-77, and Ward from 1873-1909. Among those illustrated are B. Disraeli, W.E. Gladstone, C. Darwin, J. Ruskin, J.S. Mill, R. Browning, R. Wagner, F.R. Spofforth, V. Hugo, G. Verdi, Sarah Bernhardt, Cetewayo, O. Wilde, R.F. Burton, L. Pasteur, A.G. Eiffel, C. Rhodes, T. Hardy, R. Kipling, K.S. Ranjitsinhji, A. Dreyfus, W.S. Churchill, L. Tolstoi, P. & M. Curie, and J.L. Jaurès. (43)
Vols.I-XXXVIII & XL only and Index in 41 volumes, 2° (355 x 230mm & 380 x 255mm). 2020 coloured plates by Carlo Pellegrini ('Ape'), James Tissot and Sir Leslie Ward ('Spy'). Original cloth, gilt (some volumes slightly rubbed, some leaves loose), g.e. Provenance: Edward Cecil Guiness (armorial bookplate in some vols.). -- And two volumes of Vanity Fair for 1876 with 29 plates. Sold as a periodical not subject to return.
Published by Thomas Gibson Bowles (1842-1922), Vanity Fair and Vanity Fair Album were among the most successful of caricature periodicals of the time, thanks to the efforts of innovative illustrators Pellegrini, who worked for Vanity Fair from 1865, Tissot from 1869-77, and Ward from 1873-1909. Among those illustrated are B. Disraeli, W.E. Gladstone, C. Darwin, J. Ruskin, J.S. Mill, R. Browning, R. Wagner, F.R. Spofforth, V. Hugo, G. Verdi, Sarah Bernhardt, Cetewayo, O. Wilde, R.F. Burton, L. Pasteur, A.G. Eiffel, C. Rhodes, T. Hardy, R. Kipling, K.S. Ranjitsinhji, A. Dreyfus, W.S. Churchill, L. Tolstoi, P. & M. Curie, and J.L. Jaurès. (43)