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VANITY FAIR "Spy" PRINTS ~ LITERARY
Lord Lytton
Lord Lytton
Oct. 29, 1870

"The representative of Romance"

$35

Afred Tennyson
Alfred Tennyson
July 22, 1871

"The Poet Laureate"

$75


Mr. George John Whyte-Melville
Mr. George John Whyte-Melville
Sept. 23, 1871

"The novelist of Society"

$25

Mr. Matthew Arnold
Mr. Matthew Arnold
Nov. 11, 1871

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



Mr. James Anthony Froude
Mr. James Anthony Froude
Jan. 27, 1872

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

$28

Mr. Alexander William Kinglake
Mr. Alexander William Kinglake
March 2, 1872

"Not an M.P."

$45

William Hepworth Dixon
Mr. William Hepworth Dixon
April 27, 1872

"He discovered New America and Free Russia"

$50
Mr. Thomas Hughes, M.P.
Mr. Thomas Hughes, M.P.
June 8, 1872

"Tom Brown"

$36
Mr. Mayne Reid
Mr. Mayne Reid
March 8, 1873

"Impossible Romance"

$30
Mr. Anthony Trollope
Mr. Anthony Trollope
April 5, 1873

"a Novelist"

$125
Mr. George Otto Trevelyan, M.P.
Mr. George Otto Trevelyan, M.P.
Aug. 2, 1873

"The Competition Wallah"

$42
Dr. John Doran, F.S.A.
Dr. John Doran, F.S.A.
Dec. 6, 1873

"Notes and Queries"

$42
Sir Anthony Panizzi, K.C.B.
Sir Anthony Panizzi, K.C.B.
Jan. 17, 1874

"Books"

$36
The Earl of Desart
The Earl of Desart
Jan. 31, 1874

"Chesterfield Letters"

$36
Philip-Henry Stanhope, Earl Stanhope
Philip-Henry Stanhope, Earl Stanhope
May 23, 1874

"a noble writer"

$36
Mr. Algernon Charles Swinburne
Mr. Algernon Charles Swinburne
Nov. 21, 1874

"Before Sunrise"

$45
Mr. Abraham Hayward, Q.C.
Mr. Abraham Hayward, Q.C.
Nov. 27, 1875

"Anecdotes"

$42

Mr. Robert Browning
Mr. Robert Browning
Nov. 20, 1875

"Modern Poetry"


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

July 7, 1877

"the Royal literary assistant"

$28
Sir Francis Hastings Charles Doyle, BART.
Sir Francis Hastings Charles Doyle, BART.
Nov. 24, 1877

"Poetry"

$42
Mr. Francis Bret Harte
Mr. Francis Bret Harte
Jan. 4, 1879

"the Heathen Chinee"

$50
Mr. Joseph Ernest Renan
Mr. Joseph Ernest Renan
Feb. 22, 1879

"La vie de Jésus"

$36
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
Sept. 20, 1879

"a French Poet"

$65
M. Alexandre Dumas Fils
M. Alexandre Dumas Fils
Dec. 27, 1879

"French Fiction"

$60
Sir John George Tollemache Sinclair, BART., M.P.
Sir John George
Tollemache Sinclair,
BART., M.P.

Oct. 16, 1880

"a Poet"

$42
M. Edmond Francois Valentin About
M. Edmond Francois Valentin About
Nov. 20, 1880

"French fiction"

$32
Mr. Samuel Smiles, LL.D.
Mr. Samuel Smiles, LL.D.
Jan. 14, 1882

"Self Help"

$42
Mr. William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Mr. William Edward Hartpole Lecky
May 27, 1882

"the eighteenth century"

Mr. William Hurrell Mallock
Mr. William Hurrell Mallock
Dec. 30, 1882

"Is life worth living?"

$42
The Earl of Albermarle
The Earl of Albermarle
July 14, 1883

"Waterloo"

$42
Mr. Wildrid Scawen Blunt
Mr. Wildrid Scawen Blunt
Jan. 31, 1885

"a prophet"

$35

Mr. Henry Rider Haggard
Mr. Henry Rider Haggard
May 21, 1887

"She"

Mr. Francis Charles Philips
Mr. Francis Charles Philips
July 7, 1888

"As in a Looking Glass"

$35
The Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery [Lord Sidney Herbert]
The Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery
[Lord Sidney Herbert]

July 14, 1888

"The Earl and the Doctor"

$40
Mr. R. Bontine-Cunninghame-Cunninghame-Graham
Mr. R. Bontine-Cunninghame-Cunninghame-Graham
Aug. 25, 1888

"Trafalgar Square"

$40
Mr. Arthur Wing Pinero
Mr. Arthur Wing Pinero
March 7, 1891

"Lady Bountiful"

$50
M. Victorien Sardou
M. Victorien Sardou
May 2, 1891

"Thermidor"

$55

Mr. Thomas Hardy
Mr. Thomas Hardy
June 4, 1892

"Tess"


M. Alphonse Daudet
M. Alphonse Daudet
March 11, 1893

"He wrote 'Sapho' "

$38
Mr. Rudyard Kipling
Mr. Rudyard Kipling
June 7, 1894

"Soldiers Three"
Sir John Dugdale Astley, BART.
Sir John Dugdale Astley, BART.
July 26, 1894

"The Literary Mate"

$38
Dr. Richard Garnett, C.B.
Dr. Richard Garnett, C.B.
April 11, 1895

"Printed Books"

$42
Pierre Loti
Pierre Loti
June 6, 1895

"Pierre Loti"

$55
Mr. Anthony Hope Hawkins
Mr. Anthony Hope Hawkins
Dec. 26, 1895

"Anthony Hope"

$42
Mr. Alfred Austin
Mr. Alfred Austin
Feb. 20, 1896

"the Laureate"

$36

Mr. George Meredith
Mr. George Meredith
Sept. 24, 1896

"Our first novelist"

$60

Mr. George Moore
Mr. George Moore
Jan. 21, 1897

"Esther Waters"

$45

Mr. Max Pemberton
Mr. Max Pemberton
Feb. 4, 1897

"A Puritan's Wife"

Mr. Israel Zangwill
Mr. Israel Zangwill
Feb. 25, 1897

"A Child of the Ghetto"

$55
Mr. Samuel Rutherford Crockett
Mr. Samuel Rutherford Crockett
Aug. 5, 1897

"The Stickit Minister"

$48
Tolstoi (Tolstoy)
Count Lyof Nikolaivitch Tolstoi
Oct. 24, 1901

"War & Peace"

$65
Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Ibsen
Dec. 12, 1901

"The Master Builder"

$85
Mr. Arthur Diosy
Mr. Arthur Diosy
Oct. 2, 1902

"the Japan Society"

$48
Mr. Andrew Carnegie
Mr. Andrew Carnegie
Oct. 29, 1903

"Free Libraries"

Finley Peter Dunne
Finley Peter Dunne
July 27, 1905

"Mr. Dooley"

$52
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
[Dec. 28, 1905]

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

$100
Mr. W. J. Galloway, M.P.
Mr. W. J. Galloway, M.P.
Jan. 11, 1906

"He is very affluent"

$40
Mr. Arthur Wing Pinero
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"

Major Eustace Loder
Major Eustace Loder
Sept. 5, 1906

"Spearmint"

Mr. Silas Kitto Hocking
Mr. Silas Kitto Hocking
Nov. 14, 1906

"Silas Hocking"

$52


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