Picturesque representations of the dress and manners of the Turks. : Illustrated in sixty coloured engravings. With descriptions.
William Alexander (Maidstone 1767 -Maidstone 1816)
Category
Books
Date
1822
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3124618
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2], iv, [3] p., [60] leaves, 60 leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 4to. Uniformly bound and shelved with 'Picturesque representations of the dress and manners of the Russians', '... the Chinese', and ' … the Austrians'. Provenance: Nineteenth-century anonymous armorial bookplate (not in Franks): 'Haverland' [i.e. Haverland, or Haveringland, Hall, Norfolk, seat of the Fellowes family (the Barons de Ramsey); coat of arms shows Fellowes quartering three others, unidentified]. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century half red morocco; marbled paper over boards; printed paper label on upper board: 'Costume of Turkey. Sixty coloured engravings. Price, half bound, 3l. 3s. 0d.'; sewn onto five recessed cords; spine lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Costumes' and 'Turkey'.
Makers and roles
William Alexander (Maidstone 1767 -Maidstone 1816), author Octavian Dalvimart (fl.1800 - 1803), artist