Description

Large format hardcover, folio size volume bound in dark red boards and lettered in gold on spine, in publisher’s non price-clipped pictorial dust-jacket. 241 pages. Notes, Bibliography, Index. Profusely illustrated with 291 images, chiefly in color. First edition. Like Orientalism which focused on the far East, of roughly the same period, Turquerie was a fascination with Turkish fashion in Western Europe which expressed itself in all modes of art, decoration and style. The present work explores the subject “thematically within a broadly chronological framework” from just after the fall of Constantinople to the “…great flourishing of turquerie in the 18th century, to the 19th century.” A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy, like new. As new in an as new dust-jacket. A large heavy book, Priority and International orders will require additional postage, calculated as close to actual cost as possible.