WAGEMAN, Thomas Charles]. The Military Costume of Turkey. Illustrated by a series of engravings, from drawings made on the spot. London: W. Bulmer and Co. for William Miller [dated 1818 on additional title but plates watermarked 1830]. 2° (358 x 256mm). Hand-coloured etched frontispiece signed by Wageman, engraved additional title printed in sepia with large hand-coloured aquatint vignette heightened in gold, and 29 hand-coloured aquatint plates. (Frontispiece and additional title becoming detached, some thumb-soiling and light spotting of plate margins, some offsetting to plates and text, text also spotted.) Contemporary straight-grained crimson morocco decorated in gilt and blind, gilt edges (joints, corners and board edges rubbed, light scuff marks to covers). Later issue of this well-known work. The frontispiece is a portrait of the dedicatee, "His Excellency Antonaki Ramadani, minister of the Ottoman Porte to His Britannic Majesty.' The additional title carries the imprint of Thomas McLean who had already taken over William Miller's copyrights, and presumably stocks, by the time the first edition was published in 1818. Cf. Abbey Travel 373; Blackmer 1125; Colas 2059; Vinet 2338.
WAGEMAN, Thomas Charles]. The Military Costume of Turkey. Illustrated by a series of engravings, from drawings made on the spot. London: W. Bulmer and Co. for William Miller [dated 1818 on additional title but plates watermarked 1830]. 2° (358 x 256mm). Hand-coloured etched frontispiece signed by Wageman, engraved additional title printed in sepia with large hand-coloured aquatint vignette heightened in gold, and 29 hand-coloured aquatint plates. (Frontispiece and additional title becoming detached, some thumb-soiling and light spotting of plate margins, some offsetting to plates and text, text also spotted.) Contemporary straight-grained crimson morocco decorated in gilt and blind, gilt edges (joints, corners and board edges rubbed, light scuff marks to covers). Later issue of this well-known work. The frontispiece is a portrait of the dedicatee, "His Excellency Antonaki Ramadani, minister of the Ottoman Porte to His Britannic Majesty.' The additional title carries the imprint of Thomas McLean who had already taken over William Miller's copyrights, and presumably stocks, by the time the first edition was published in 1818. Cf. Abbey Travel 373; Blackmer 1125; Colas 2059; Vinet 2338.
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