Vanity Fair Caricatures - Literature
Authors, playwrights, and poets plus Sherlock Holmes.
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Thomas Hardy
'Tess' The famous novelist.
Spy
June 4th 1892
£80.00
Alfred Lord Tennyson
The Poet Laureate
Ape
July 22nd 1871
£45.00
Oscar Wilde
'Oscar'
Ape
May 24th 1884
£365.00
Count Lyof Nikolaivitch Tolstoi
War & Peace
SNAPP
Oct 24th 1901
£40.00
M. Alexandre Fils Dumas, 'French Fiction'
'T'
27th Dec. 1879
£35.00
George Bernard Shaw
Magnetic........
December 28th 1905,
Sepia toned cartoon by Max Beerbohm
£45.00.
George Bernard Shaw
G.B.S
RITCHIE
Aug 16th 1911
£295.00
Mr. Rudyard Kipling
'Soldiers Three'
June 7th 1894
SPY
£235.00
Anthony Trollope
'A Novellist'
Spy
April 5th 1873
£85.00
Gilbert Keith Chesterton G.K.C
Strickland
Feb 21st 1912
£265.00.
John Ruskin
The Realization of the Ideal
Feb 17th 1872
£40.00.
Matthew Arnold
I Say , the critic must keep out.
Coide
Nov 11th 1871
£40.00
Samuel Langhorne Clemens aka Mark Twain
Below The Mark
SPY
May 13th 1908
£450.00
Sherlock Holmes
Mr William Gillette
Spy
27th Feb 1907.
£400.00
Max Beerbohm
Max
Sic
Dec 9th 1897
£60.00
Maurice Maeterlinck
A Belgian Poet
Max
July 22nd 1908,
£45.00
Arthur Wing Pinero and George Bernard Shaw
Though it is...
Max
Feb 1st 1906
£45.00
A.W Mason
Four Feathers
Max
June 6th 1908
£45.00
Joseph Ernest Renan
The Greatest of the Fathers
Guth
Oct. 10th 1910
£45.00
John Masefield
Max Beerbohm
The Spectator 1931
£60.00
J. L. Garvin
Max Beebohm
The Spectator 1931
£60.00
Anatole.
Greatest Living Frenchman
GUTH
August 11th 1909
£40.00
Arnold Bennett
The Business Man of Letters
OWL
April 2nd 1913
£48.00
Andrew Carnegie
"Free Libraries"
Spy
Oct. 29th 1903
£50.00
Wilkie Collins
The Novelist who invented Sensation
1872
£50.00
Editor Encyclopædia Britannica
Hugh Chisholm
From 'The World' magazine
Feb. 28th 1911
Spy
£45.00
Political Journalist
Sir Henry Lucy
From 'The World' magazine
Spy
19th July 1910
£55.00 scarce
Thomas Carlyle
"The Diogenes of Modern Corinthians without his Tub"
Ape
Oct. 22nd 1870
£35.00
John Stuart Mill
A Feminine Philosopher
Spy
Nov. 124th 1909
£65.00
Ernest Renan.
The Greatest of the Fathers
5.10.1910
£40.00
Rudyard Kipling
"Mr. Rudyard Kipling"
Bert Thomas
for 'The World'
c.1930
£55.00
Dr. E. J. Dillon
"The Semi-official Ambassador"
OWL
1913
£35.00 scarce
Mr. Eden Phillpotts.
'The Prophet of Dartymoor'
1913 scarce
£75.00 scarce