The Turks in MDXXXIII / a series of drawings made in that year at Constantinople by Peter Coeck of Aelst ; and published from woodblocks by his widow, at Antwerp in MDLIII ; reproduced with other illustrations, in fac-simile, with and introduction by Sir William Stirling Maxwell
London & Edinburgh: Privately printed for Sir William Stirling Maxwell, MDCCCLXXIII
Physical Description
70 pages, 12 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 49 x 67cm.
General Note
The series of wood-engravings as published in Antwerp has title: Moeurs et fachons de faire des Turcz.
Title within ornamental border.
Contents
“Register. This volume consists of thirty-five leaves: - General Title, presentation page and 2 leaves of Contents (pp. i-viii). Title to Introduction and 18 leaves of Introduction, signed A-S (pp. 1-70). Moeurs et Fachons de fair des Turcz, 10 leaves. Cypher of Peter Coeck, and Register, 2 leaves. The facsimile of the portrait of Solyman the Magnificent (O. pp. 53, 54), and of the Moeurs et Fachons, are by Mr. C. B. Praetorius, 7 Gloucester Grove, West London; and those of the other subjects by Messrs. George Waterston and Son, 56 North Hanover Street, Edinburgh. The typography is by Messrs. T. Brettell and Co., 51 Rupert Street, Haymarket, London.”
Copy Note
"Only one hundred copies printed." [reverse of title page]
Inscribed in black ink on the Presentation page [p. III]: "Presented to the Library of the Royal Academy with the compliments of the editor. William Stirling Maxwell. London 6th May 1874."