WHARTON

CONSTANTINOPLE, STAMBOUL

EDWARDS, George Wharton

Philadelphia, 1930

First Edition

All of the illustrations in the volume were drawn or painted in Constantinople in the fall of 1928 by the author from life.

4to, color printed frontispiece portrait Kemal ATATURK

312 pp., 23 color plates, 32 b&w plates.

Geoge Wharton Edwards (1859-1950) was a celebrated impressionist painter and writer, who wrote and illustrated this volume with the assistance of the Turkish Ambassador to the U.S. Contents include descriptions of the bazaars and the coffee houses, palaces and minarets, mosques and cemeteries, fountains, Ankara (the new capital). Mustafa Kemal Pasha, the emancipation of women, and the separation of religion and the state…