1880 Vanity Fair ART Earl of Nottingham Illustrated COLOR Portraits HUGE

1880 Vanity Fair ART Earl of Nottingham Illustrated COLOR Portraits HUGE

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 1880 edition includes 25 full page color plates of famous figures including

• J. Guest
• J. Forbes
• R. Lowell
• Henry Richard
• Marquis of Anglesey
• Earl of Winchilsea and Nottingham

Item number: #27151

Price: $599

JUNIOR, Jehu (pseud. Thomas Gibson Bowles)

Vanity Fair: … July – December

London: Vanity Fair Office, 1880.

Details:

• Collation: July 31-Dec. 25, 1880
  • 57-308, 16, 309-364
• References: Jehu Junior, Vanity Fair Album: List of Cartoons and Volumes from the foundation of Vanity Fair
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure
  • Cloth
• Size: ~15.75in X 11.25in (40cm x 28.5cm)

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