‎Monkey‎

‎Ape (Carlo Pellegrini, 1839 - 1889) (Lith.)‎

‎Lt-Col John Palmer Brabazon; Bwab. Issue 917. First edition before the bound volumes.‎

‎London: Vanity Fair 1886. Original colour lithograph. 40 x 27 cm 15.75 x 10.6 inches. Very Good. Minor wear on top edge not affecting image. Dated 29 May 1886. Vincent Brooks Day & Son Lith. Scarce. London: Vanity Fair, 1886. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 18-1323

‎Ape (Carlo Pellegrini, 1839 - 1889) (Lith.)‎

‎M Charles Floquet; Vive la Pologne. Issue 1024. First edition before the bound volumes.‎

‎London: Vanity Fair 1888. Original colour lithograph. 40 x 27 cm 15.75 x 10.6 inches. Very Good. Minor wrinkle at top edge not affecting image. Dated 16 Jun 1888. Vincent Brooks Day & Son Lith. Scarce.Charles Thomas Floquet French pronunciation: ​ʃaÊl flÉ”kÉ›; 2 October 1828 – 18 January 1896 was a French statesman. He was born at Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port Basses-Pyrénées. He studied law in Paris and was called to the bar in 1851. The coup d'état of that year aroused the strenuous opposition of Floquet who had while yet a student given proof of his republican sympathies by taking part in the fighting of 1848. He made his name by his brilliant and fearless attacks on the government in a series of political trials and at the same time contributed to the Temps and other influential journals. When the tsar Alexander II visited the Palais de Justice in 1867 Floquet was said to have confronted him with the cry "Vive la Pologne monsieur!" He delivered a scathing indictment of the Empire at the trial of Pierre Bonaparte for killing Victor Noir in 1870 and took a part in the revolution of 4 September as well as in the subsequent defence of Paris. London: Vanity Fair, 1888. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 18-1311

‎Ape (Carlo Pellegrini, 1839 - 1889) (Lith.)‎

‎Maj-Gen Sir Charles Warren KCMG; Bechuanaland. Issue 901. First edition before the bound volumes.‎

‎London: Vanity Fair 1886. Original colour lithograph. 40 x 27 cm 15.75 x 10.6 inches. Very Good. Minor toning and foxing in margins not affecting image. Dated 6 Feb 1886. Vincent Brooks Day & Son Lith. Scarce.General Sir Charles Warren GCMG KCB FRS 7 February 1840 – 21 January 1927 was an officer in the British Royal Engineers. He was one of the earliest European archaeologists of the Biblical Holy Land and particularly of the Temple Mount. Much of his military service was spent in British South Africa. Previously he was police chief the head of the London Metropolitan Police from 1886 to 1888 during the Jack the Ripper murders. His command in combat during the Second Boer War was criticised but he achieved considerable success during his long life in his military and civil posts. London: Vanity Fair, 1886. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 18-1325

‎Ape (Carlo Pellegrini, 1839 - 1889) (Lith.)‎

‎Mr A Akers-Douglas MP; The Kent Gang. Issue 882. First edition before the bound volumes.‎

‎London: Vanity Fair 1885. Original colour lithograph. 40 x 27 cm 15.75 x 10.6 inches. Good. Foxing and wrinkling in margins and 2 half-inch tears in bottom edge not affecting image. Dated 26 Sep 1885. Vincent Brooks Day & Son Lith. Scarce.Aretas Akers-Douglas 1st Viscount Chilston GBE PC JP DL 21 October 1851 – 15 January 1926 born Aretas Akers and known as Aretas Akers-Douglas between 1875 and 1911 was a British Conservative statesman who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 until he was raised to the peerage in 1911. He notably served as Home Secretary under Arthur Balfour between 1902 and 1905. London: Vanity Fair, 1885. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 18-1345

‎Ape (Carlo Pellegrini, 1839 - 1889) (Lith.)‎

‎Mr C Sykes; the Gull's friend. Issue 315. First edition before the bound volumes.‎

‎London: Vanity Fair 1874. Original colour lithograph. 40 x 27 cm 15.75 x 10.6 inches. Good. Some toning foxing and creases and a vertical fold down the center. Letterpress clipping with biography of subject pasted on verso. Dated 14 Nov 1874. Vincent Brooks Day & Son Lith. Scarce.Christopher Sykes 1831 – 15 December 1898 was an English Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1865 to 1892. He was a friend of Edward VII as Prince of Wales. Sykes was the second son of Sir Tatton Sykes 4th Baronet and his wife Mary Ann Foulis daughter of Sir William Foulis 7th Baronet. His father was a popular horse breeder who bred bloodstock; however he was an authoritarian father who bullied his children. Sykes was educated at Rugby School and Trinity College Cambridge. He began mixing with London's great and good and became a connoisseur of books china and furniture. He was a Deputy Lieutenant and J.P. for the East Riding of Yorkshire. At the 1865 general election Sykes was elected Conservative Member of Parliament MP for Beverley. At the 1868 general election he was elected MP for the East Riding of Yorkshire. He held this seat until 1885 when it was divided under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 and was then elected for Buckrose one of the constituencies into which his previous constituency had been divided. He held the seat until 1892. Between 1868 and 1892 he made only six speeches and did not speak on any particular issue except in favour of a bill for the preservation of seabirds earning him the nickname Gull's Friend. He was considered to be the basis for the character "Mr Brauncepath" in Lothair the novel by Benjamin Disraeli. He was honoured with the Order of St. Lazarus of Belgium in 1879. Sykes became a close friend of Edward VII as Prince of Wales. The Prince was entertained in great splendour at Brantingham Thorpe Sykes' country house in Yorkshire during the Doncaster Races and at his London home in Berkeley Square. The Prince exploited his friend and subjected him to humiliations for example on one occasion poured a decanter of brandy over his head. However Sykes's lavish entertainment of the Marlborough House Set soon put a strain on his finances. Nearly bankrupted in 1890 Sykes was forced to sell both Brantingham Thorpe and his London home. At a general election two years later he lost his parliamentary seat. Despite this the Prince of Wales never forgot his devoted friend and after Sykes' death in 1898 he installed a tablet to his memory at Westminster Abbey. London: Vanity Fair, 1874. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 18-1302

‎Ape (Carlo Pellegrini, 1839 - 1889) (Lith.)‎

‎Mr CT Ritchie MP; Sugar Bounties. Issue 887. First edition before the bound volumes.‎

‎London: Vanity Fair 1885. Original colour lithograph. 40 x 27 cm 15.75 x 10.6 inches. Very Good. Minor toning and wrinkling in margins not affecting image. Dated 31 Oct 1885. Vincent Brooks Day & Son Lith. Scarce.Charles Thomson Ritchie 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee PC 19 November 1838 – 9 January 1906 was a British businessman and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1874 until 1905 when he was raised to the peerage. He served as Home Secretary from 1900 to 1902 and as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1902 to 1903. London: Vanity Fair, 1885. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 18-1339

‎Ape (Carlo Pellegrini, 1839 - 1889) (Lith.)‎

‎Mr E Miall MP; The Nonconformist. Issue No. 143. Original Lithograph.‎

‎London: Vanity Fair 1871. Original colour lithograph. 13.5 x 8.5 inches accompanied by 1 sheet of letterpress description. Very Good. Published in Vanity Fair 29 July 1871.Edward Miall 8 May 1809 – 30 April 1881 was an English journalist apostle of disestablishment founder of the Liberation Society and Liberal Party politician. London: Vanity Fair, 1871. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 18-3262

‎Ape (Carlo Pellegrini, 1839 - 1889) (Lith.)‎

‎Mr Frederic Harrison MA; An Apostle of Positivism. Issue 899. First edition before the bound volumes.‎

‎London: Vanity Fair 1886. Original colour lithograph. 40 x 27 cm 15.75 x 10.6 inches. Good. Minor edge wear and quarter inch tear in left margin not affecting image. Dated 23 Jan 1886. Vincent Brooks Day & Son Lith. Scarce.Frederic Harrison 18 October 1831 – 14 January 1923 was a British jurist and historian. Born at 17 Euston Square London he was the son of Frederick Harrison 1799-1881 a stockbroker and his wife Jane daughter of Alexander Brice a Belfast granite merchant. He was baptised at St. Pancras Church Euston and spent his early childhood at the northern London suburb of Muswell Hill to which the family moved soon after his birth. His father later acquired a lease on the grand Tudor manor house Sutton Place near Guildford Surrey in 1874 which descended to his elder son Sidney and about which Frederic jnr. wrote the definitive history Annals of an Old Manor House: Sutton Place Guildford first published in 1893. His paternal grandfather was a Leicestershire builder. In 1840 the family moved again to 22 Oxford Square Hyde Park London a house designed by Harrison's father. Along with his siblings Sidney and Lawrence Harrison received his initial education at home before attending a day school in St John's Wood. In 1843 he entered King's College School graduating as second in the school in 1849. London: Vanity Fair, 1886. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 18-1329

‎Ape (Carlo Pellegrini, 1839 - 1889) (Lith.)‎

‎Mr H Irving; The Bells. Issue 320. First edition before the bound volumes.‎

‎London: Vanity Fair 1874. Original colour lithograph. 40 x 27 cm 15.75 x 10.6 inches. Very Good. Some toning and spots in margin not affecting image. Dated 19 Dec 1874. Vincent Brooks Day & Son Lith. Scarce.Sir Henry Irving 6 February 1838 – 13 October 1905 born John Henry Brodribb sometimes known as J. H. Irving was an English stage actor in the Victorian era known as an actor-manager because he took complete responsibility supervision of sets lighting direction casting as well as playing the leading roles for season after season at the Lyceum Theatre establishing himself and his company as representative of English classical theatre. In 1895 he became the first actor to be awarded a knighthood indicating full acceptance into the higher circles of British society. Irving is widely acknowledged to be one of the inspirations for Count Dracula the title character of the 1897 novel Dracula whose author Bram Stoker was business manager of the theatre. London: Vanity Fair, 1874. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 18-1334

‎Ape (Carlo Pellegrini, 1839 - 1889) (Lith.)‎

‎Mr ID Sankey; Praise and Prayer. Issue 336. First edition before the bound volumes.‎

‎London: Vanity Fair 1875. Original colour lithograph. 40 x 27 cm 15.75 x 10.6 inches. Good. Some toning and foxing and a vertical fold down the center. Letterpress clipping with biography of subject pasted on verso. Dated 10 Apr 1875. Vincent Brooks Day & Son Lith. Scarce.Ira David Sankey 1840–1908 known as The Sweet Singer of Methodism was an American gospel singer and composer associated with evangelist Dwight L. Moody. London: Vanity Fair, 1875. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 18-1294

‎Ape (Carlo Pellegrini, 1839 - 1889) (Lith.)‎

‎Mr JE Millais RA; A converted pre-Raphaelite. Issue No. 132. Original Lithograph.‎

‎London: Vanity Fair 1871. Original colour lithograph. 13.5 x 8.5 inches accompanied by 1 sheet of description. Very Good. Published in Vanity Fair 13 May 1871.Sir John Everett Millais 1st Baronet PRA /ˈmɪleɪ/; 8 June 1829 – 13 August 1896 was an English painter and illustrator who was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. He was a child prodigy who aged eleven became the youngest student to enter the Royal Academy Schools. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded at his family home in London at 83 Gower Street now number 7. Millais became the most famous exponent of the style his painting Christ in the House of His Parents 1850 generating considerable controversy and painting perhaps the embodiment of the school Ophelia in 1850-51.By the mid-1850s Millais was moving away from the Pre-Raphaelite style to develop a new form of realism in his art. His later works were enormously successful making Millais one of the wealthiest artists of his day but some former admirers including William Morris saw this as a sell-out Millais notoriously allowed one of his paintings to be used for a sentimental soap advertisement. While these and early 20th-century critics reading art through the lens of Modernism viewed much of his later production as wanting this perspective has changed in recent decades as his later works have come to be seen in the context of wider changes and advanced tendencies in the broader late nineteenth-century art world and can now be seen as predictive of the art world of the present.Millais's personal life has also played a significant role in his reputation. His wife Effie was formerly married to the critic John Ruskin who had supported Millais's early work. The annulment of the marriage and her wedding to Millais have sometimes been linked to his change of style but she became a powerful promoter of his work and they worked in concert to secure commissions and expand their social and intellectual circles. London: Vanity Fair, 1871. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 18-3189

‎Ape (Carlo Pellegrini, 1839 - 1889) (Lith.)‎

‎Mr JP Edwards MP; The Echo. Issue 885. First edition before the bound volumes.‎

‎London: Vanity Fair 1885. Original colour lithograph. 40 x 27 cm 15.75 x 10.6 inches. Very Good. Minor toning and wrinkling in margins not affecting image. Dated 17 Oct 1885. Vincent Brooks Day & Son Lith. Scarce.John Passmore Edwards 24 March 1823 – 22 April 191112 was a British journalist newspaper owner and philanthropist. The son of a carpenter he was born in Blackwater a small village between Redruth and Truro in Cornwall England. London: Vanity Fair, 1885. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 18-1337

‎Ape (Carlo Pellegrini, 1839 - 1889) (Lith.)‎

‎Mr Richard Dowse MP; An Irish wit and Solicitor-General. Issue No. 125. Original Lithograph.‎

‎London: Vanity Fair 1871. Original colour lithograph. 13.5 x 8.5 inches accompanied by 1 sheet of letterpress description. Very Good. Trimmed at bottom of page with some loss of text. Published in Vanity Fair 25 March 1871.Richard Dowse PC 1824 – 14 March 1890 was an Irish politician barrister and judge reputed to be the wittiest orator of his time. He was born in Dungannon County Tyrone eldest son of William Dowse and Maria Donaldson. He was educated at the Royal School Dungannon and the University of Dublin entered Lincoln's Inn in 1849 and was called to the Irish Bar in 1852. After practicing for some years on the North-West Circuit he became Queen's Counsel in 1863 and Third Serjeant in 1867. London: Vanity Fair, 1871. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 18-3252

‎Ape (Carlo Pellegrini, 1839 - 1889) (Lith.)‎

‎Mr Thomas Hay Sweet Escott; the Fortnightly Review. Issue 861. First edition before the bound volumes.‎

‎London: Vanity Fair 1885. Original colour lithograph. 40 x 27 cm 15.75 x 10.6 inches. Very Good. Minor foxing and wrinkling in margins not affecting image. Dated 2 May 1885. Vincent Brooks Day & Son Lith. Scarce. London: Vanity Fair, 1885. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 18-1340

‎Ape (Carlo Pellegrini, 1839 - 1889) (Lith.)‎

‎Mr WS Blunt; a prophet. Issue 848. First edition before the bound volumes.‎

‎London: Vanity Fair 1885. Original colour lithograph. 40 x 27 cm 15.75 x 10.6 inches. Good. Foxing and wrinkling in margins and one-inch tear in top edge not affecting image. Dated 31 Jan 1885. Vincent Brooks Day & Son Lith. Scarce.Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 17 August 1840 – 10 September 1922 sometimes spelled "Wilfred" was an English poet and writer. He and his wife Lady Anne Blunt travelled in the Middle East and were instrumental in preserving the Arabian horse bloodlines through their farm the Crabbet Arabian Stud. He was best known for his poetry which was published in a collected edition in 1914 but also wrote a number of political essays and polemics. Blunt is also known for his views against imperialism viewed as relatively enlightened for his time. London: Vanity Fair, 1885. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 18-1346

‎APE (Carlo Pelligrini)‎

‎Original Vanity Fair Print Spy Archbishop Of Canterbury Published 25 Dec 1869Statesman No 38‎

‎London: Vanity Fair 1869. First Edition. . Paperback. Good. <br/> <br/> Vanity Fair, paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 500030803

‎Ape (Carlo Pellegrini, 1839 - 1889) (Lith.)‎

‎Sir A Helps KCB; Council. Issue 302. First edition before the bound volumes.‎

‎London: Vanity Fair 1874. Original colour lithograph. 40 x 27 cm 15.75 x 10.6 inches. Good. Some toning and foxing and a vertical crease down the center. Letterpress clipping with biography of subject pasted on verso. Dated 15 Aug 1874. Vincent Brooks Day & Son Lith. Scarce.Sir Arthur Helps KCB Hon DCL 10 July 1813 – 7 March 1875 was an English writer and dean of the Privy Council. He was a Cambridge Apostle. The youngest son of London merchant Thomas Helps Arthur Helps was born in Streatham in South London. He was educated at Eton and at Trinity College Cambridge coming out thirty-first wrangler in the mathematical tripos in 1835. He was recognized by the ablest of his contemporaries there as a man of superior gifts and likely to make his mark in later life. As a member of the "Conversazione Society" better known as the Cambridge Apostles a society established in 1820 for the purposes of discussion on social and literary questions by a few young men attracted to each other by a common taste for literature and speculation he was associated with Charles Buller Frederick Maurice Richard Chenevix Trench Monckton Milnes Arthur Hallam and Alfred Tennyson. London: Vanity Fair, 1874. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 18-1306

‎Ape (Carlo Pellegrini, 1839 - 1889) (Lith.)‎

‎Sir FG Milner Bt MP; York. Issue 869. First edition before the bound volumes.‎

‎London: Vanity Fair 1885. Original colour lithograph. 40 x 27 cm 15.75 x 10.6 inches. Good. Foxing along top edge minor loss on top left corner and half inch tear in bottom edge not affecting image. Dated 27 Jun 1885. Vincent Brooks Day & Son Lith. Scarce.Sir Frederick George Milner 7th Baronet GCVO PC 7 November 1849 – 8 June 1931 was a British Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1883 to 1885 from 1890 to 1906. Educated at Eton and Christ Church Oxford he was elected as one of the two Members of Parliament MPs for York at a by-election in 1883 but was defeated at the 1885 general election. London: Vanity Fair, 1885. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 18-1343

‎Ape (Carlo Pellegrini, 1839 - 1889) (Lith.)‎

‎Sir George Shaw-Lefevre KCB; La Reyne le veult. Issue No. 139. Original Lithograph.‎

‎London: Vanity Fair 1871. Original colour lithograph. 13.5 x 8.5 inches accompanied by 1 sheet of letterpress description. Very Good. Trimmed at bottom of page with some loss of text. Published in Vanity Fair 1 July 1871.Sir John George Shaw-Lefevre KCB 24 January 1797 – 20 August 1879 was a British barrister Whig politician and civil servant.Shaw-Lefevre was the son of Charles Shaw-Lefevre by his wife Helen daughter of John Lefevre. Charles Shaw-Lefevre 1st Viscount Eversley was his elder brother. He was educated at Trinity College Cambridge where he was Senior Wrangler in 1818 and was called to the Bar Inner Temple. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1820. He was returned to Parliament for Petersfield in December 1832 but was unseated on petition in March 1833. He served under Lord Grey as Under-Secretary of State for War and the Colonies in 1834. The latter year Shaw-Lefevre was appointed a Poor Law Commissioner after the passing of the Poor Law Amendment Act which he remained until 1841. Between 1856 and 1875 he served as Clerk of the Parliaments. He also helped found the University of London and served as its Vice-Chancellor for many years. He was made a KCB in 1857 for his public services.Shaw-Lefevre married Rachel Emily daughter of Ichabod Wright in 1824. They had one surviving son George who became a prominent politician and was ennobled as Baron Eversley and five daughters. One daughter Madeleine Shaw-Lefevre was the first Principal of Somerville Hall; another daughter Rachel married Arthur Hamilton-Gordon son of the Prime Minister the 4th Earl of Aberdeen.Shaw-Lefevre died in August 1879 aged 82. His wife lived for six more years before dying in February 1885.The Lefevre Peninsula in South Australia was named by Governor John Hindmarsh on 3 June 1837 after Shaw-Lefevre who was one of South Australia's Colonisation Commissioners. London: Vanity Fair, 1871. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 18-3292

‎Ape (Carlo Pellegrini, 1839 - 1889) (Lith.)‎

‎Sir H Drummond-Wolff KCMG MP; Consular chaplains. Issue 305. First edition before the bound volumes.‎

‎London: Vanity Fair 1874. Original colour lithograph. 40 x 27 cm 15.75 x 10.6 inches. Good. Some toning foxing and creases and a vertical fold down the center. Letterpress clipping with biography of subject pasted on verso. Dated 5 Sep 1874. Vincent Brooks Day & Son Lith. Scarce.Sir Henry Drummond Charles Wolff GCB GCMG PC 1830 – 11 October 1908 known as Henry Drummond Wolff or H. Drummond Wolff was an English diplomat and Conservative Party politician who started as a clerk in the Foreign Office. Wolff was the son of Georgiana Mary née Walpole and Joseph Wolff. His father was a missionary who had been born Jewish and his mother a descendant of Prime Minister Robert Walpole. Wolff was educated at Rugby School. London: Vanity Fair, 1874. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 18-1304

‎Ape (Carlo Pellegrini, 1839 - 1889) (Lith.)‎

‎Sir James Hudson GCB; Ill-used. Issue 308. First edition before the bound volumes.‎

‎London: Vanity Fair 1874. Original colour lithograph. 40 x 27 cm 15.75 x 10.6 inches. Good. Some toning and foxing and a vertical crease down the center. Letterpress clipping with biography of subject pasted on verso. Dated 26 Sept 1874. Vincent Brooks Day & Son Lith. Scarce.Sir James Hudson GCB 1810 – 20 September 1885 was a British diplomat. He is noted for his time as British ambassador to Turin between 1852 and 1863 as an italophile and strong supporter of Italian unification and a collector of Italian art. London: Vanity Fair, 1874. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 18-1309

‎Ape (Carlo Pellegrini, 1839 - 1889) (Lith.)‎

‎Sir JP Corry Bt MP; a temperate Ulster man. Issue 967. First edition before the bound volumes.‎

‎London: Vanity Fair 1887. Original colour lithograph. 40 x 27 cm 15.75 x 10.6 inches. Very Good. Minor toning in margins and wear on edges not affecting image. Dated 14 May 1887. Vincent Brooks Day & Son Lith. Scarce.Sir James Porter Corry 1st Baronet 8 September 1826 – 28 November 1891 was an Irish politician. He served as a Conservative Member of Parliament MP from 1874 to 1885 and an Irish Unionist Alliance MP from 1886 until his death. Sir James was the son of Robert Corry of Turnagardy Newtownards Co. Down a quarry owner and Belfast timber merchant. Educated at the Royal Belfast Academic Institution he entered the family timber firm which was at that time occupied with building the growing industrial port of Belfast. He was first elected to Parliament for the Irish constituency of Belfast in the 1874 general election. The constituency was abolished for the 1885 general election. On 15 September 1885 he was created a baronet of Dunraven Antrim. On 1 February 1886 he became the MP for Mid Armagh in a by-election following the death of John McKane. In July 1886 he joined the Irish Unionist Alliance and stood for subsequent elections for this party. He died in office in 1891 at his home Dunraven on Belfast's Malone Road and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son William. London: Vanity Fair, 1887. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 18-1322

‎Ape (Carlo Pellegrini, 1839 - 1889) (Lith.)‎

‎Sir Thomas Erskine May KCB; Parliamentary Practice. Issue No. 131. Original Lithograph.‎

‎London: Vanity Fair 1871. Original colour lithograph. 13.5 x 8.5 inches accompanied by 1 sheet of letterpress description. Very Good. Trimmed at bottom of page with some loss of text. Published in Vanity Fair 6 May 1871.Thomas Erskine May 1st Baron Farnborough KCB PC 8 February 1815 – 17 May 1886 was a British constitutional theorist. This derived from his career at the House of Commons. London: Vanity Fair, 1871. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 18-3288

‎Ape (Carlo Pellegrini, 1839 - 1889) (Lith.)‎

‎The Archbishop of York; The Archbishop of Society. Issue No. 138. Original Lithograph.‎

‎London: Vanity Fair 1871. Original colour lithograph. 13.5 x 8.5 inches accompanied by 1 sheet of letterpress description. Very Good. Trimmed at bottom of page with some loss of text. Published in Vanity Fair 24 June 1871.William Thomson FRS FRGS 11 February 1819 – 25 December 1890 was an English church leader Archbishop of York from 1862 until his death. He was born the eldest son of John Thomson of Kelswick House near Whitehaven Cumberland and educated at Shrewsbury School and at The Queen's College Oxford of which he became a scholar. He took his B.A. degree in 1840 and was soon afterwards made fellow of his college. He was ordained in 1842 and worked as a curate at Cuddesdon. In 1847 he was made tutor of his college and in 1853 he delivered the Bampton lectures his subject being The Atoning Work of Christ viewed in Relation to some Ancient Theories. These thoughtful and learned lectures established his reputation and did much to clear the ground for subsequent discussions on the subject. London: Vanity Fair, 1871. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 18-3259

‎Ape (Carlo Pellegrini, 1839 - 1889) (Lith.)‎

‎The Duke of Sutherland; Simple and unassuming himself yet magnificent and generous towards his fellow men he is the very Prince of Dukes. Issue No. 88. Original Lithograph.‎

‎London: Vanity Fair 1870. Original colour lithograph. 13.5 x 8.5 inches accompanied by 1 sheet of description. Very Good. Published in Vanity Fair 9 July 1870.George Granville William Sutherland-Leveson-Gower 3rd Duke of Sutherland KG FRS 19 December 1828 – 22 September 1892 styled Viscount Trentham until 1833 Earl Gower in 1833 and Marquess of Stafford between 1833 and 1861 was a British politician from the Leveson-Gower family. London: Vanity Fair, 1870. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 18-3241