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

JUNIOR, Jehu (pseud. Thomas Gibson Bowles)

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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

 

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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:
    • 270
    • Wanting p. 155-158, 165-166; p. 167-168 present but damaged
    • 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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18941

Category

European History

Authors

JUNIOR, Jehu (pseud. Thomas Gibson Bowles)

Printing Date

19th Century

Language

English

Binding

Leather

Book Condition

Excellent