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A rare proof of the Vanity Fair print by 'Spy' showing S. Muir Fergusson in full knickers, cap and holding a golf ball and club. On the reverse is an old attached label, which identifies this print is one "printed by hand before letters, of the Cartoons which appeared in Vanity Fair during the year 1898. Ten sets alone of these proofs (of which this is one) were drawn and are in existence. Vanity Fair Office, December , 1898. This is Copy # 1", and is signed in ink, Jehu Junior, the nickname of Thomas Gibson Bowles, founder and owner of Vanity Fair.