PICTURESQUE REPRESENTATIONS OF THE DRESS AND MANNERS OF THE TURKS, DATED 1814 PICTURESQUE REPRESENTATIONS OF THE DRESS AND MANNERS OF THE TURKS, DATED 1814 PICTURESQUE REPRESENTATIONS OF THE DRESS AND MANNERS OF THE TURKS, DATED 1814 PICTURESQUE REPRESENTATIONS OF THE DRESS AND MANNERS OF THE TURKS, DATED 1814

PICTURESQUE REPRESENTATIONS OF THE DRESS AND MANNERS OF THE TURKS, DATED 1814

Reference: ART3005109

Printed for John Murray, by w. Bulmer and co. Cleveland-row.
Illustrated in sixty colored engravings with descriptions.
London
Followed by 60 hand-colored costume plates, each accompanied by English description on separate leaf. Plates include Sultana or Odalisk, ladle-bearer, musician, first dragoman, the mufti, a Jew, a dervise, a Tartar, and on and on. They are both entertaining, both to gaze at and to read about, and they bring alive the past of a radically different world from the present in a way that no dry historical tome or even a diverting historical novel can do alone.
17 by 24 cm.