COSTUMES TURKEY, PICTURESQUE REPRESENTATIONS OF THE DRESS & ...

Hammer

£380

COSTUMES TURKEY, PICTURESQUE REPRESENTATIONS OF THE DRESS & MANNERS OF THE TURKS, JOHN MURRAY, LONDON, 1814
Illustrated in 60 aquatint coloured engravings with descriptions, published for John Murray by W. Bulmer and Co. Cleveland Row, bound in leather-backed marbled boards, gilt decorated spine, raised bands, marbled papers for end papers, 23.7 x 17cm
The Costume of Turkey (1804) was one of a series of six folio costume books featuring foreign dress published by William Miller in the early 19th-century, with hand-colored stipple-engraved plates after drawings made in 1798 by Octavien d'Alvimart. In 1814, publisher John Murray bought out Miller's plate-book business, and issued a series of seven costume books in royal octavo, including the present volume on Turkey. This copy is the first edition of John Murray’s publication.