Yale Center for British Art

Title:
The military costume of Turkey : illustrated by a series of engravings, from drawings made on the spot.
Published / Created:
London, Published by T. M'Lean, and sold by all booksellers and printsellers, B.R. Howlett, printer, 1818.
Physical Description:
[38] leaves, [2], 30 leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 37 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio A 2011 1 Copy 2
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio A 2011 1 Copy 1
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Colored engraving by and after Thomas Charles Wageman. Colored aquatints by John Heaviside Clark.

Each plate accompanied by a leaf of descriptive text.

With an added engraved t.p.

Colas, R. Bibliographie générale du costume et de la mode, 2059

Hiler, H. Bibliography of costume, p. 613

BAC: British Art Center has copy 1 bound in gilt-tooled green morocco. Copy 2 is a large paper copy (49 cm). Bound in contemporary pink paper covered boards, with publisher's printed title label on front cover.
Subject Terms:
Turkey. Ordu -- Uniforms. | Military uniforms. | Turkey -- Army -- Uniforms. | M'Lean, Thomas -- Publisher. | Howlett, B.R. -- Printer. | Engraving, Colored -- Specimens -- 1818.
Form/Genre:
Aquatints -- Hand-colored -- 1818.
Contributors:
Clark, John Heaviside, approximately 1770–1863, engraver. | Wageman, Thomas Charles, approximately 1787–1863, engraver.