1861 RARE VANITY FAIR~ CIVIL WAR NEWSPAPER ~ WILLIAM HOWARD RUSSELL

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1861 RARE VANITY FAIR~ CIVIL WAR NEWSPAPER ~ WILLIAM HOWARD RUSSELL:
$60.00

A TRULY RARE FIND. THIS WAS A SHORT LIVED PUBLICATION AND I WAS UNABLE TO FIND ANOTHER ONE LIKE IT!

WHAT I HAVE LISTED ARE THE ONLY ONES TO BE FOUND ONLINE FOR SALE!

DATED SEPTEMBER 14 1861

COVER DEPICTS IRISH WAR CORRESPONDENT WILLIAM RUSSELL

ALSO: CIVIL WAR ERA AND TOPICS THROUGHOUT

Early review:The Fate of Humor in a Time of Civil and Cold War: Vanity Fair treatment of race and humor in Vanity Fair, an antebellum periodical that a number of the Pfaff\'s bohemians contributed to. Specifically, considers the irony that, \"while the Bohemians associated with Vanity Fair gladly enlisted in the battle to free humanity from the shackles of social repression\" they did not throw their support behind the abolitionist effort. Instead, the Civil War-era Vanity Fair was marked by pronounced racism towards African Americans, which it expressed through a variety of attempts at humor

Published by Louis H. Stephens a noted Humorist, cartoonist and caricaturist

8.5\"x 11.25\" 12pages (complete) New York

Several of the prints have the name Bobbett-Hooper under them

Henry Louis Stephens (February 11, 1824 – December 13, 1882) was an American illustrator.

He was born in Philadelphia. About 1859 he went to New York under an engagement with Frank Leslie, and after a year or so transferred his services to Harper & Brothers. Stephens was a prolific artist, and accomplished a great amount of work for book and magazine illustration.

He was well known as a caricaturist, excelling especially in the humorous delineation of animals, and drew cartoons and sketches for The Cyclopedia of Wit and Humor (1858), a book edited by William Evans Burton, Vanity Fair (1859–63), Mrs. Grundy (1869), Punchinello (1870), and other periodicals. He contributed artwork to Mark Twain\'s comic memoir, Roughing It and the novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner. He illustrated some children\'s books, including Aesop\'s Fables, Death of Cock Robin, and The House that Jack Built; he wrote and illustrated The Goblin Snob (c. 1855), a satirical poem, as well as The Comic Natural History of the Human Race (1851). He gave some attention also to painting in watercolors, but rarely exhibited his works. He died in Bayonne, New Jersey

THIS EDITOR OF THIS PUBLICATION WAS ARTEMUS WARD WHO STARTED BACK IN 1860. WARD WAS A CLOSE FRIEND TO PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN.j