Title
Vanity Fair
Coverage
New York
Publisher
A. Rankin & Co.
Date
December 1859
Subject
Volume 1, number 1
Description
The most influential of the early American humor magazines, Vanity Fair was edited by Charles G. Leland and Artemus Ward, with content dominated by political cartoons, letters in comic vernacular, socio-political commentary, and puns by the leading comic writers and bohemians of New York. Its centrist politics, shaky financial status, and overt antagonism toward Blacks hastened its demise. This Vanity Fair bears no relationship to any other of the magazines of the same title.