The Beauties of The Bosphorus. Illustrated with a Series of Views of Constantinople and Its Environs.
PARDOE, Julia.
The Beauties of The Bosphorus. Illustrated with a Series of Views of Constantinople and Its Environs.
"For Constantinople needs no aid from the imagination to make it one of the brightest gems in the diadem of nature": Finely bound example of Miss Julia Pardoe's The Beauties of The Bosphorus
London: Virtue and Co, .
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Finely bound example of Miss Julia Pardoe’s splendidly illustrated volume of her observations of Constantinople. Quarto, bound in three quarters contemporary morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, red morocco spine label, raised gilt bands and gilt compartments, all edges gilt, engraved frontispiece of Miss Pardoe, elaborately illustrated with engravings after drawings by William H. Bartlett. In near fine condition with light toning.
In 1836, 30-year-old Julia Pardoe arrived in Istanbul with her father on their way to Egypt. Struck with the city's stunning beauty, she decided to stay to compose her second book, The Beauties of the Bosphorus. Pardoe collaborated on the work with William Henry Bartlett, one of the foremost illustrators of typography of his generation. Encompassing many subjects, the present volume pays particular attention not only to the architecture of Constantinople and its environs, but the people and their customs.
