Vanity Fair Prints - Literary, Writers, Poets, Authors, etc.

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We sell original Vanity Fair prints (lithographs), not reproductions.
The normal size of a Vanity Fair print is approx. 10½ by 15½ inches, though this does vary somewhat by year, and the various publishers, over the life of Vanity Fair.

VANITY FAIR "Spy" PRINTS ~ LITERARY, AUTHORS, WRITERS, PLAYWRIGHTS, POETS, ETC.

Vanity Fair "Spy" Print Categories

Accountants

Ambassadors from England

Ambassadors to England

Americans

Architects and Engineers

Artists

Automobilists/Balloonists

Aviators

Bankers and Financiers

Billiards

Boxers

Businessmen and Empire Builders

Carriage Drivers

Chancellors of the Exchequer

Doctors and Scientists

Dog Judge

Doubles/Groups

Duelling

Explorers and Inventors

Proofs before lettering

Stock Exchange Officials

Trade Union Officials

Turf Devotees

Wagerers

Yachting

Thomas Carlyle

Oct. 22, 1870

"The Diogenes of the Modern Corinthians without his Tub."

Lord Lytton

Oct. 29, 1870

"The representative of Romance"

$50

Alfred Tennyson

July 22, 1871

"The Poet Laureate"

$75

Mr. George John Whyte-Melville

Sept. 23, 1871

"The novelist of Society"

$25
(see condition notes, another litho available to the right)

Mr. George John Whyte-Melville

Sept. 23, 1871

"The novelist of Society"

$40

Mr. Matthew Arnold

Nov. 11, 1871

"I say, the critic must keep out of the
region of immediate practice"

$75

Mr. James Anthony Froude

Jan. 27, 1872

"He created Henry VIII, exploded Mary Stuart, and demolished Elizabeth"

$40

Mr. Wilkie Collins

Feb. 3, 1872

"The Novelist who invented Sensation."

John Ruskin

Feb 17, 1872

"The realization of the Ideal."

$55

Mr. Alexander William Kinglake

March 2, 1872

"Not an M.P."

$45

Mr. William Hepworth Dixon

April 27, 1872

"He discovered New America and Free Russia"

$50

Mr. Thomas Hughes, M.P.

June 8, 1872

"Tom Brown"

$36

Mr. Mayne Reid

March 8, 1873

"Impossible Romance"

$30

John Stuart Mill

March 29, 1873

"The Feminine Philosopher."

Mr. Anthony Trollope

April 5, 1873

"a Novelist."

Mr. George Otto Trevelyan, M.P.

Aug. 2, 1873

"The Competition Wallah"

$42

Dr. John Doran, F.S.A.

Dec. 6, 1873

"Notes and Queries"

$42

Sir Anthony Panizzi, K.C.B.

Jan. 17, 1874

"Books"

$36

The Earl of Desart

Jan. 31, 1874

"Chesterfield Letters"

$36

Philip-Henry Stanhope, Earl Stanhope

May 23, 1874

"a noble writer"

$36

Mr. Algernon Charles Swinburne

Nov. 21, 1874

"Before Sunrise"

$35

Henry Irving

Dec. 19, 1874

"The Bells"

Mr. Robert Browning

Nov. 20, 1875

"Modern Poetry"

Mr. Abraham Hayward, Q.C.

Nov. 27, 1875

"Anecdotes"

$42

Mr. Theodore Martin,
C.B., LL.D.

July 7, 1877

"the Royal literary assistant"

$20

Sir Francis Hastings Charles Doyle, BART.

Nov. 24, 1877

"Poetry"

$42

Mr. Francis Bret Harte

Jan. 4, 1879

"the Heathen Chinee"

Mr. Joseph Ernest Renan

Feb. 22, 1879

"La vie de Jésus"

$36

Victor Hugo

Sept. 20, 1879

"a French Poet"

$60

M. Alexandre Dumas Fils

Dec. 27, 1879

"French Fiction"

$75

Emile Zola

Jan. 24, 1880

"French Realism"

Mr James Russell Lowell, LL.D.

Aug 21, 1880

"Hosea Biglow"

$15
See condition notes

Sir John George
Tollemache Sinclair,
BART., M.P.

Oct. 16, 1880

"a Poet"

$42

M. Edmond Francois Valentin About

Nov. 20, 1880

"French fiction"

$32

Mr. Samuel Smiles, LL.D.

Jan. 14, 1882

"Self Help"

$42

Mr. William Edward Hartpole Lecky

May 27, 1882

"the eighteenth century"

$30

Mr. William Hurrell Mallock

Dec. 30, 1882

"Is life worth living?"

$42

The Earl of Albermarle

July 14, 1883

"Waterloo"

$42

Mr. Wildrid Scawen Blunt

Jan. 31, 1885

"a prophet"

$35

Captain Richard Francis Burton

Oct. 24, 1885

"The Arabian NIghts"

Mr. Henry Rider Haggard

May 21, 1887

"She"

Mr. Francis Charles Philips

July 7, 1888

"As in a Looking Glass"

$35

The Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery
[Lord Sidney Herbert]

July 14, 1888

"The Earl and the Doctor"

$40

Mr. R. Bontine-Cunninghame-Cunninghame-Graham

Aug. 25, 1888

"Trafalgar Square"

$40

Mr. Arthur Wing Pinero

March 7, 1891

"Lady Bountiful"

$50

M. Victorien Sardou

May 2, 1891

"Thermidor"

$55

Mr. Thomas Hardy

June 4, 1892

"Tess"

$100

M. Alphonse Daudet

March 11, 1893

"He wrote 'Sapho' "

$38

Mr. Rudyard Kipling

June 7, 1894

"Soldiers Three"

Sir John Dugdale Astley, BART.

July 26, 1894

"The Literary Mate"

$20

Dr. Richard Garnett, C.B.

April 11, 1895

"Printed Books"

$42

Pierre Loti

June 6, 1895

"Pierre Loti"

$28

Mr. Anthony Hope Hawkins

Dec. 26, 1895

"Anthony Hope"

$25

George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier

Jan 23, 1896

"Trilby"

$45

Mr. Alfred Austin

Feb. 20, 1896

"the Laureate"

$36

Thomas Henry Hall Caine

July 2, 1896

"The Manxman"

$45

Mr. George Meredith

Sept. 24, 1896

"Our first novelist"

$60

Mr. George Moore

Jan. 21, 1897

"Esther Waters"

$45

Mr. Max Pemberton

Feb. 4, 1897

"A Puritan's Wife"

Mr. Israel Zangwill

Feb. 25, 1897

"A Child of the Ghetto"

$55

Mr. Samuel Rutherford Crockett

Aug. 5, 1897

"The Stickit Minister"

$50

Count Lyof Nikolaivitch Tolstoi

Oct. 24, 1901

"War & Peace"

Henrik Ibsen

Dec. 12, 1901

"The Master Builder"

$85

Mr. Arthur Diosy

Oct. 2, 1902

"the Japan Society"

$85

Mr. Andrew Carnegie

Oct. 29, 1903

"Free Libraries"

Finley Peter Dunne

July 27, 1905

"Mr. Dooley"

$60

George Bernard Shaw

[Dec. 28, 1905]

"Magnetic, he has the power to infect almost everyone with the delight that he takes in himself."

Mr. W. J. Galloway, M.P.

Jan. 11, 1906

"He is very affluent"

$40

Mr. Arthur Wing Pinero

Feb. 1, 1906

"Though is is an arguable point whether he be, as it was once reputed, the most intellectual, he remains, beyond dispute, the dressiest, of contemporary"