April 23, 2024
1862 EXTREMELY RARE VANITY FAIR ~ GEORGE D PRENTICE EDITOR OF LOUISVILLE JOURNAL
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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 JULY 5th 1862COVER DEPICTS GEORGE DENNISON PRENTICEGeorge Dennison Prentice was the editor of the Louisville Journal , which he built into a major newspaper in Louisville, Kentucky . He attracted readers by satire as well as exaggerated reporting and support of the Know-Nothing Party in the 1850s. His writing was said to contribute to rabid anti-Catholic and anti-foreigner sentiment, and a riot in 1855. During the Civil War, he created and wrote about a fictional guerrilla " Sue Mundy ", whose activities he used to taunt the Union military commander of the state.ALSO CONTAINS CIVIL WAR TOPICSEarly 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
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