Sir Winston Churchill, WG Grace and Scott of the Antarctic among 2,000 Vanity Fair prints to go on sale

By Laura Roberts Published: 8:00AM GMT 06 March 2010

The cinema appeared each week in the magazine, deliberate the well read and amicable voice of Edwardian and Victorian Britain, from 1869 until the association went broke in 1914.

The pick up has remained total given it was initial paid for by Paul Victorious, an American collector, when Vanity Fair"s resources were sole off by creditors.

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The images are widely separated up in to 64 categories and alternative subjects embody Rudyard Kipling, Oscar Wilde and Charles Darwin. It will be auctioned at possibly Sotheby"s or Christie"s this year unless a in isolation suggest is made.

The stream owners Philip Burden, from Clive A Burden Ltd an very old maps and books dilettante in Hertfordshire, says: "We are carefree that the pick up will sojourn total and that it will stay in Britain. Vanity Fair is such an iconic name. It was the amicable opening of the day."

Winston Churchill was embellished by Sir Leslie Ward, the artist well known as Spy. Churchill supposed the call in in Aug 1900 saying: "I"m most complimented by your proposal."