Vanity Fair: A Weekly Show of Political, Social, and Literary Wares. January 5 to June 28, 1884. by CARICATURES OF NOTABLE PERSONS - OSCAR WILDE - WOMEN) Spy et al (illus) - January to June 1884.

London.: Vanity Fair. January to June 1884.. Bound volume of individual issues of the magazine from January to June 1884, 15 ¾ x 10 ½ inches; 382 pages. Twenty-six color lithographic images by various artists (including SPY) on sheets 15 ½ x 10 ½ inches. Spine of volume perished boards worn and the rear board hanging on by a thread; although binding remains tight. Foxing to front and rear endpapers and adjacent pages, not affecting most pages or images, light horizontal crease to images (presumably from prior to binding being lightly folded in the mail) but this is not distracting or noticeable from the front of the image. Off-set to several images noted. The list that follows contains the caption to the illustration followed by the fuller text identification of the individual portrayed. "Ladies, No. 6" Lady Florence Dixie. (light soiling visible in margins, binding holes at right edge well outside the image) "Justice, Justice, Justice" Sir Edwin Baldwin Mallet - Diplomat. "Horse-race Management" Seymour Portman - Horse Race Management (off-set noted) "Painter, Sculptor, Blacksmith etc." Hubert Herkomer - artist "The Lady Holland" "The Baron" Sir Charles Lennox Wyke - Diplomat "Dispatches" Captain Conway Seymour - Queen's Messenger "The Baby" Mr. Arthur Coventry - Gentleman Jockey "The Marchionesse of Tweeddale" "Horsey" Lord Cardross "Ordnance" Hon. Henry Robert Brand M. P. "A Legislator" Lord Haldon - offset "A Professor" Mr. James Edwin Thorold Rogers, M.P. "H.I.M. the Empress of Austria"(off-set noted) "A Good Soldier" Lieutenant-General George Wentworth Alexander Higginson, C.B. "Congregational Union?" The Reverend Joseph Parker (heavy off-set) "The Glorious East" Mr. Carl Haag "Mrs. Weldon" Mrs. Georgina Weldon "Here! Here!! Here!!! Here!!!!" Mr. Charles Nicholas Warton, M. P. "Gentle and Liberal" The Hon. Frederick Stephen Archibald Hanbury-Tracy, M. P. "Oscar" Mr. Oscar Wilde (two short tears at the lower edge, not affecting the image, small spot at lower edge of image) "Alfred" Mr. Alfred de Rothschild "The Princess Royal" H. I. H. The Crown Princess of Germany (etc.) (binding holes in left margin, short tear in gutter both well outside the image) "The House of Percy" The Duke of Northumberland "The Knight of the Cruise of Mr. Gladstone" Sir Donald Currie, K.C.M.G., M.P. "Huddersfield" Sir John William Ramsden, Bart., M.P. A volume of particular interest for the depiction of Oscar Wilde ("He is twenty-eight years old, comes of a literary family, and is essentially modern. He is to be married next week") but also for the six portraits of women not only of interest for the fine caricatures of people of the day, but also for the news of the day, arts and other events (eg. "I hear that Miss Hogarth, the surviving executrix and legal representative of Charles Dickens, has taken the necessary steps to prevent the republication in this country of Dicken's confidential letters to his solicitor...") .