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![[Frederick Barne] the Jockey Club.](jpegs/37878.jpg)
[Frederick Barne] the Jockey Club.
Spy. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Lith.
Vanity Fair August 5 1882.
Chromolithograph. Printed area 340 x 185mm (13½ x 7¼"). Small hole in image.
Frederick Barne (1801-86), landowner and MP for the rotten borough of Dunwich from 1830 until its abolition in the Reform Act of 1832. Fifty years later he is depicted as an old man on a horse, smoking a cigar.
[Ref: 37878] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)
Spy. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Lith.
Vanity Fair August 5 1882.
Chromolithograph. Printed area 340 x 185mm (13½ x 7¼"). Small hole in image.
Frederick Barne (1801-86), landowner and MP for the rotten borough of Dunwich from 1830 until its abolition in the Reform Act of 1832. Fifty years later he is depicted as an old man on a horse, smoking a cigar.
[Ref: 37878] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)
"Western Australia" [Admiral Sir Frederick George Denham Bedford G.C.B. K.C.D.]
[''Spy" monogram of Sir Leslie Ward in image lower left.] Vincent Brooks, Day & Son Ltd. lith.
Vanity Fair Decr. 3rd. 1903.
Chromolithograph, image 320 x 190mm. 12½ x 7½".
Admiral Sir Frederick George Denham Bedford KCB (1838 – 1913) was Governor of Western Australia from 24 March 1903 to 22 April 1909. His father was a Vice-Admiral. Sir Frederick joined the Royal Navy at the age of 14, and also served in the Crimean War.
[Ref: 10808] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
[''Spy" monogram of Sir Leslie Ward in image lower left.] Vincent Brooks, Day & Son Ltd. lith.
Vanity Fair Decr. 3rd. 1903.
Chromolithograph, image 320 x 190mm. 12½ x 7½".
Admiral Sir Frederick George Denham Bedford KCB (1838 – 1913) was Governor of Western Australia from 24 March 1903 to 22 April 1909. His father was a Vice-Admiral. Sir Frederick joined the Royal Navy at the age of 14, and also served in the Crimean War.
[Ref: 10808] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
"The Air," (Mr. Frank Hedges Butler.)
Spy [Leslie Ward]. Hentschel-Colourtype, London.
[Lobndon, 1907.]
Colotype. Printed area 360 x 230mm, 14 x 9", with strip of letterpress biography.
Frank Hedges Butler (1855 - 1928), pictured in a hot-air balloon, megaphone in hand. Butler was one of the first people in England to own a motor-car, becoming the first Honorary Treasurer of the Royal Automobile Club. In 1901 he made a balloon ascent from Crystal Palace accompanied by his daughter Vera and the Hon. Charles Rolls (later of Rolls-Royce): while flying over Sidcup Vera suggested the formation of an Aero Club and so the Aero Club of the United Kingdom (now the Royal Aero Club) was founded. He was also a life Fellow of the R.G.S. and a member of the Royal Thames Yacht Squadron.
[Ref: 24592] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Spy [Leslie Ward]. Hentschel-Colourtype, London.
[Lobndon, 1907.]
Colotype. Printed area 360 x 230mm, 14 x 9", with strip of letterpress biography.
Frank Hedges Butler (1855 - 1928), pictured in a hot-air balloon, megaphone in hand. Butler was one of the first people in England to own a motor-car, becoming the first Honorary Treasurer of the Royal Automobile Club. In 1901 he made a balloon ascent from Crystal Palace accompanied by his daughter Vera and the Hon. Charles Rolls (later of Rolls-Royce): while flying over Sidcup Vera suggested the formation of an Aero Club and so the Aero Club of the United Kingdom (now the Royal Aero Club) was founded. He was also a life Fellow of the R.G.S. and a member of the Royal Thames Yacht Squadron.
[Ref: 24592] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
"Sydney" [Sir Daniel Cooper.]
Spy [monogram of Sir Leslie Ward, in image.] Vincent Brooks, Day & Son Lith.
Vanity Fair. Jany. 21 1882.
Chromolithograph, sheet 380 x 265mm. 15 x 10½".
Sir Daniel Cooper (1821 - 1902), merchant and philanthropist who went to Sydney, Australia in 1843. Though he left for England in 1861 and never again resided permanently in New South Wales, he continued to serve the colony. He acted frequently as agent-general for New South Wales, attending to such matters as the negotiation and supervision of mail contracts, and occasionally rendering special services such as the inquiries which culminated in the selection in 1888 of Edward Eddy as chief commissioner for railways in New South Wales. In 1881 he was chairman of the London Committee of the Sydney International Exhibition and in 1886 sat on the royal commission for the Colonial and Indian Exhibition in London. He was associated with the Royal Colonial Institute, warmly advocated imperial federation and in 1880 published A Federal British Empire the Best Defence of the Mother Country and her Colonies. In 1857 Cooper was elected to the Senate of the University of Sydney and became a generous benefactor.
[Ref: 18764] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
Spy [monogram of Sir Leslie Ward, in image.] Vincent Brooks, Day & Son Lith.
Vanity Fair. Jany. 21 1882.
Chromolithograph, sheet 380 x 265mm. 15 x 10½".
Sir Daniel Cooper (1821 - 1902), merchant and philanthropist who went to Sydney, Australia in 1843. Though he left for England in 1861 and never again resided permanently in New South Wales, he continued to serve the colony. He acted frequently as agent-general for New South Wales, attending to such matters as the negotiation and supervision of mail contracts, and occasionally rendering special services such as the inquiries which culminated in the selection in 1888 of Edward Eddy as chief commissioner for railways in New South Wales. In 1881 he was chairman of the London Committee of the Sydney International Exhibition and in 1886 sat on the royal commission for the Colonial and Indian Exhibition in London. He was associated with the Royal Colonial Institute, warmly advocated imperial federation and in 1880 published A Federal British Empire the Best Defence of the Mother Country and her Colonies. In 1857 Cooper was elected to the Senate of the University of Sydney and became a generous benefactor.
[Ref: 18764] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
"Mixed Forces" [General Sir Ian Hamilton.]
Spy [monogram of Sir Leslie Ward in image.] Vincent Brooks, Day & Son Ltd. lith.
Vanity Fair May 2nd. 1901.
Chromolithograph, image 345 x 190mm. 13½ x 7½".
General Sir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton C.B. D.S.O. (1853 - 1947). He served in South Africa under Kitchener and Roberts.
[Ref: 16069] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)
Spy [monogram of Sir Leslie Ward in image.] Vincent Brooks, Day & Son Ltd. lith.
Vanity Fair May 2nd. 1901.
Chromolithograph, image 345 x 190mm. 13½ x 7½".
General Sir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton C.B. D.S.O. (1853 - 1947). He served in South Africa under Kitchener and Roberts.
[Ref: 16069] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)
Hoylake.
Spy [Leslie Ward.] Vincent Brooks, Day & Son Ltd lith.
Vanity Fair. July 16th 1903.
Chomolithograph. Printed area 330 x 190mm (13 x 7½"). Tear in right margin.
Harold Horsfall Hilton (1869-1942), golfer, one of only three amateurs to win an Open Championship, firstly at Muirfield in 1893, and again at Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Hoylake, 1897. He was also the first editor of Golf Monthly, an editor of Golf Illustrated and a course designer (for example Ferndown Golf Club in Dorset). Hewas inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1978.
[Ref: 40691] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Spy [Leslie Ward.] Vincent Brooks, Day & Son Ltd lith.
Vanity Fair. July 16th 1903.
Chomolithograph. Printed area 330 x 190mm (13 x 7½"). Tear in right margin.
Harold Horsfall Hilton (1869-1942), golfer, one of only three amateurs to win an Open Championship, firstly at Muirfield in 1893, and again at Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Hoylake, 1897. He was also the first editor of Golf Monthly, an editor of Golf Illustrated and a course designer (for example Ferndown Golf Club in Dorset). Hewas inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1978.
[Ref: 40691] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
![[Sir William Huggins] Spectroscopic Astronomy](jpegs/56851.jpg)
[Sir William Huggins] Spectroscopic Astronomy" Vanity Fair. April 9th. 1903. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son Ltd. Lith.
Spy [Leslie Ward].
Chromolithograph. Sheet 385 x 265mm (15¼ x 10½")
Sir William Huggins (1824-1910), English astronomer best known for his pioneering work in astronomical spectroscopy.
[Ref: 56851] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
Spy [Leslie Ward].
Chromolithograph. Sheet 385 x 265mm (15¼ x 10½")
Sir William Huggins (1824-1910), English astronomer best known for his pioneering work in astronomical spectroscopy.
[Ref: 56851] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
![Digby Jephson] The Lobster.](jpegs/56380.jpg)
Digby Jephson] The Lobster.
Spy [Leslie Ward].
Vanity Fair, May 22nd 1902.
Chromolithograph. 265 x 395mm (10½ x 15½"). Mount burn.
Digby Loder Armroid Jephson (1871-1926) in mid lob. While playing cricket for Cambridge University and Surrey, he earned the nickname 'The Lobster' for bowling slow right-arm underarm lobs. The Cricketers of Vanity Fair.
[Ref: 56380] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
Spy [Leslie Ward].
Vanity Fair, May 22nd 1902.
Chromolithograph. 265 x 395mm (10½ x 15½"). Mount burn.
Digby Loder Armroid Jephson (1871-1926) in mid lob. While playing cricket for Cambridge University and Surrey, he earned the nickname 'The Lobster' for bowling slow right-arm underarm lobs. The Cricketers of Vanity Fair.
[Ref: 56380] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
"Soldiers Three" [Rudyard Kipling.]
[''Spy" monogram of Sir Leslie Ward in image lower right.] Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Lith.
Vanity Fair June 7, 1894.
Chromolithograph, image 315 x 185mm. 12½ x 7¼". Some wrinkling to paper.
(Joseph) Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936), writer and poet. Born in Bombay, he was educated in England but returned to India and worked for Civil and Military Gazette in Lahore. His many publications include Plain Tales from the Hills, 1887, The Jungle Book, 1894, and Kim, 1901. He is unequalled as an observer of the Raj and as a commentator on the duties and obligations of empire. Later in life he settled in Sussex, from which he drew the inspiration for Puck of Pook's Hill, 1906, and Rewards and Fairies, 1910, as well as some of his finest late stories. Long out of favour because of the imperial themes in his work, he is now recognized as one of the major talents of his time. Stamped 'Specimen' upper right.
[Ref: 9610] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)
[''Spy" monogram of Sir Leslie Ward in image lower right.] Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Lith.
Vanity Fair June 7, 1894.
Chromolithograph, image 315 x 185mm. 12½ x 7¼". Some wrinkling to paper.
(Joseph) Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936), writer and poet. Born in Bombay, he was educated in England but returned to India and worked for Civil and Military Gazette in Lahore. His many publications include Plain Tales from the Hills, 1887, The Jungle Book, 1894, and Kim, 1901. He is unequalled as an observer of the Raj and as a commentator on the duties and obligations of empire. Later in life he settled in Sussex, from which he drew the inspiration for Puck of Pook's Hill, 1906, and Rewards and Fairies, 1910, as well as some of his finest late stories. Long out of favour because of the imperial themes in his work, he is now recognized as one of the major talents of his time. Stamped 'Specimen' upper right.
[Ref: 9610] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)
![[Sir William Ramsay] ''Chemistry.''](jpegs/46395.jpg)
[Sir William Ramsay] ''Chemistry.'' Vanity Fair Supplement.
Spy [Leslie Ward].
[Vanity Fair, 1908.]
Collotype. Sheet 380 x 250mm (15 x 9¾").
Sir William Ramsay (1852-1916), KCB, FRS, FRSE, chemist who discovered the noble gases and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1904.
[Ref: 46395] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
Spy [Leslie Ward].
[Vanity Fair, 1908.]
Collotype. Sheet 380 x 250mm (15 x 9¾").
Sir William Ramsay (1852-1916), KCB, FRS, FRSE, chemist who discovered the noble gases and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1904.
[Ref: 46395] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
Mixed Political Wares. Methodical & Methodist. Babble & Bluster. Faithful & Faddist. Supplement to Vanity Fair
Spy [Leslie Ward]. Vincent Brooks Day & Son, Lith.
Dec.r 3, 1892.
Collotype. Sheet 410 x 775mm (16 x 30½") Folded as issued, one split slightly.
A Vanity Fair caricature, an unusual triptych, with three pairs of portraits of new Liberal government: 'Methodical & Methodist' are Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (1836-1908, Secretary of State for War and later Prime Minister 1905-8) and Henry Hartley Fowler (1830-1911, Liberal MP and the first Methodist to be raised to the peerage, as 1st Viscount Wolverhampton); 'Babble & Bluster' are William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898, Liberal Prime Minister 1892-4, at the time of publication) and William Vernon Harcourt (1827-1904, Gladstone's Chancellor of the Exchequer); and 'Faithful & Faddist' are George Frederick Samuel Robinson ((1827-1909, Lord President of the Council under Gladstone) and John Poyntz Spencer (1835-1910, 5th Earl Spencer, First Lord of the Admiralty under Gladstone).
[Ref: 46397] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
Spy [Leslie Ward]. Vincent Brooks Day & Son, Lith.
Dec.r 3, 1892.
Collotype. Sheet 410 x 775mm (16 x 30½") Folded as issued, one split slightly.
A Vanity Fair caricature, an unusual triptych, with three pairs of portraits of new Liberal government: 'Methodical & Methodist' are Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (1836-1908, Secretary of State for War and later Prime Minister 1905-8) and Henry Hartley Fowler (1830-1911, Liberal MP and the first Methodist to be raised to the peerage, as 1st Viscount Wolverhampton); 'Babble & Bluster' are William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898, Liberal Prime Minister 1892-4, at the time of publication) and William Vernon Harcourt (1827-1904, Gladstone's Chancellor of the Exchequer); and 'Faithful & Faddist' are George Frederick Samuel Robinson ((1827-1909, Lord President of the Council under Gladstone) and John Poyntz Spencer (1835-1910, 5th Earl Spencer, First Lord of the Admiralty under Gladstone).
[Ref: 46397] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)