PARDOE

THE BEAUTIES OF THE BOSPHORUS

ILLUSTRATED İN A SERİES OF VİEWS OF CONSTANTİNOPLE AND ITS ENVİRONS, FROM ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY W.H. BARTLETT

PARDOE, Julia

Jame Virtue, London, 1(ca.1855).

engraved portrait frontispiece of Pardoe, additional engraved title, engraved map and 85 plates, contemporary red half morocco gilt.

One of the most popular and attractive of all books on the Bosphorus…This work was obviously planned to take advantage of the great success which “The City of the Sultan” had achieved…This present edition is enlarged from the 1838 edition with an appendix on the Crimean War and 6 extra plates…

Julia Pardoe (1804-1862) was an English poet, novelist and traveller. She was one of the first women to describe Turkey, where she travelled with her father Commander Thomas Pardoe, in 1836. Her most popular work is the City of the Sultan and Domestic Manners of the Turks (1837), which presented the Turkish upper class with sympathy and humanity. This comprehensive work about Constantinople , its people and customs was a very popular publication also due to the beautiful illustrations after William Henry Bartlett..