Description:
Vanity Fair Album for July to December 1885.
Published in London at the Vanity Fair Offices. Folio Sized at 15.5 x 11 inches. Rarely found with the magazines complete, as the prints were normally removed and the magazines discarded. Bound in the publisher's traditional green hardcover bevelled boards, titled in gilt to the spine and upper board, some wear to the extremities. Near complete, lacking just one plate (a folding one, seldom bound into these albums) for the full Collection. Some foxing to the closed edges, title page and outer margins. Includes Sportsmen, lawyers, Politicians, and teachers, as well as other 'Men of the Day'. Heavy at 3kg.
Prints Included in Album
1885-07-04 The Rt Hon E Gibson PC QC LLD Dublin University Spy S 466
1885-07-11 The Earl of Limerick a Freemason Ape S 467
1885-07-18 The Rt Rev Charles John Ellicott DD Revision Spy S 468;
1885-07-25 Lord Calthorpe Fred Spy S 469
1885-08-01 Mr S C Allsopp MP Burton Beer Spy S 470
1885-08-08 Maj-Gen Sir Peter Stark LumsdenGCB CSI Afghan frontier Spy M 0337
1885-08-15 Mr Edward Birkbeck MP the fisherman's friend Ape S 471
1885-08-22 Mr Corney Grain Corney Grain Spy M 0338
1885-08-29 Mr Opfer of Blowitz The Times Ape M 0339
1885-09-05 Mr William James Richmond Cotton the City Spy S 472
1885-09-12 Tom Cannon Tom Cannon Spy M 0340
1885-09-19 M Paul Lessar The Affghan frontier Ape M 0341
1885-09-26 Mr A Akers-Douglas MP The Kent Gang Ape S 473
1885-10-03 Mr W H Houldsworth MP Manchester Ape S 474
1885-10-10 Mr Richard John Lloyd Price of Rhiwlas pointers Spy M 0342
1885-10-17 Mr J P Edwards MP The Echo Ape S 475
1885-10-24 Capt RF Burton The Arabian Nights Ape M 0343
1885-10-31 Mr CT Ritchie MP Sugar Bounties Ape S 476
1885-11-07 Sir Robert Bateson-Harvey Bt MP Bucks Spy S 477
1885-11-14 Sig P Tosti For ever and for ever Ape M 0344
1885-11-21 Mr Tom Nickalls Tom PAT M 0345
1885-11-28 The Rt Hon The Earl of Harrowby the Sugar of Toryism Ape S 478
1885-12-05 Baron de Staal The Russian Ambassador Ape S 479
1885-12-12 Mr Samuel Pope QC Jumbo Spy M 0346
1885-12-19 Sir G C A Arthur Bt The Mite Spy M 0347
1885-12-26 The Rt Rev George Howard Wilkinson DD Truro Spy S 480
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