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. .

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Book number: 18-1329

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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. .

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Book number: 18-1334

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

Mr Wh Houldsworth Mp; Manchester. Issue 883. (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. Some toning, and wrinkling in margin, not affecting image. Dated 3 Oct 1885. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son (Lith.). Scarce. Sir William Henry Houldsworth, 1st Baronet (20 August 1834 in Ardwick, Manchester - 18 April 1917 in Kilmarnock) was a mill-owner in Reddish, Lancashire. He was Conservative MP for Manchester North West from 1883 to 1906, and sometime chairman of the Fine Cotton Spinners' Association. He was made a baronet in 1887. .

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Book number: 18-1336

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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 1911)[1][2] 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. .

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Book number: 18-1337

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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. .

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Book number: 18-1339

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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. .

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Book number: 18-1340

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

Mr Edward Birkbeck Mp; the Fisherman's Friend. Issue 876. (First Edition Before the Bound Volumes. )

London: Vanity Fair, 1885. Original colour lithograph. 40 x 27 cm (15.75 x 10.6 inches). Good. Toning, and some rubbing across image. Dated 15 Aug 1885. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son (Lith.). Scarce. Sir Edward Birkbeck, 1st Baronet KCVO, DL (11 October 1838 - 2 September 1908) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. .

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Book number: 18-1342

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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. .

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Book number: 18-1345

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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. .

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Book number: 18-1346

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

Mr Ch Wilson Mp; Hull. Issue 851. (First Edition Before the Bound Volumes. )

London: Vanity Fair, 1885. Original colour lithograph. 40 x 27 cm (15.75 x 10.6 inches). Good. Toning and stains with minor loss in bottom edge. Dated 21 Feb 1885. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son (Lith.). Scarce. Charles Henry Wilson, 1st Baron Nunburnholme (22 April 1833 - 27 October 1907), was a prominent English shipowner who became head of the Thomas Wilson Sons & Co. shipping business. Together with his brother he expanded the activities of the company, into one of the largest in Britain. He also served as Liberal MP for Hull for thirty years, and in 1906 received the title Baron Nunburnholme. .

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Book number: 18-1347

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

Mr Eh Knatchbull-Hugessen Mp; a Promising Apprentice. Issue No. 84. (Original Lithograph. )

London: Vanity Fair, 1870. Original colour lithograph. 13.5 x 8.5 inches, accompanied by 1 sheet of description. Very Good. Minor spots of foxing in bottom margin, else fine. Published in Vanity Fair, 11 June 1870. Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen, 1st Baron Brabourne PC (29 April 1829 - 6 February 1893), known as E. H. Knatchbull-Hugessen, was a British Liberal politician. He served as Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department under Lord Russell in 1866 and under William Ewart Gladstone from 1868 to 1871 and was also Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies under Gladstone from 1871 to 1874. In 1880 he was elevated to the peerage as Baron Brabourne. .

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Book number: 18-3238

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

Mr George Hammond Whalley Mp; the Great Believer in Roman Catholicism. Issue No. 120. (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, 18 Feb 1871. George Hammond Whalley (22 January 1813 - 8 October 1878) was a British lawyer and Liberal Party politician. He was the eldest son of James Whalley, a merchant and banker from Gloucester, and a direct descendant of Edward Whalley, the regicide. George was educated at University College London, gaining a first class degree in Metaphysics and Rhetoric, and entered Gray's Inn in 1835, being called to the bar in 1839. He was an assistant tithe commissioner between 1836 and 1847, writing over 200 articles for the Justice of the Peace between 1838 and 1842. In 1838 and 1839 he published a pair of treatises on the Tithe Acts, which were expanded, bound and published in 1848 as The Tithe Act and the Whole of the Tithe Amendment Acts. In 1846 he married Anne Wakeford, with whom he had a son and two daughters. During the Irish Potato Famine in 1847 he established several fisheries on the Irish west coast.[citation needed] In 1852 he was made High Sheriff of Caernarvonshire, a Deputy Lieutenant of Denbighshire, and a captain in the Denbighshire Yeomanry. He was chairman of the Llanidloes & Newtown Railway, the first in Montgomeryshire, from its inception in 1852 and was the first chairman of the Mid Wales Railway in 1859. He was also active in the Railway Benevolent Institution and the National Temperance League. .

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Book number: 18-3248

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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. .

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

Mr Mt Bass Mp; Beer. Issue No. 133. (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, 20 May 1871. Michael Thomas Bass, DL (6 July 1799 - 29 April 1884) was an English brewer and a member of Parliament. Under his leadership, the Bass Brewery became the largest brewery in the world, and Bass the best known brand of beer in England. Bass represented Derby in the House of Commons as a member of the Liberal Party between 1848 and 1883 where he was an effective advocate for the brewing industry. He was a generous benefactor both in Derby, and in Burton-on-Trent where his company was based. .

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Book number: 18-3257

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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. .

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Book number: 18-3262

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