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.