Author: Clara Erskine Clement (Waters) (and note on title page: author of " Naples, the City of Parthenope," "The Queen of the Adriatic," "Handbook of Legendary and Mythological Art," Etc.)
Title: Constantinople : The City of the Sultans
Publication Information: Boston: Dana Estes and Co Publishers (and on next page: Copyright 1895 by Estes and Lauriat. Bottom of the page: University Press: John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U.S.A.)
Call #: PR722 . V3
Book Size: 20.5 cm (H); 14.5 cm (L); 3.5 cm (spine)
Cover: Read cloth cover with extensive gilt on the front (none on the back cover); front cover title, "The City of the Sultans" in flowing font with a graphic of minarets, domes; framed by curlicues; central star at top and bottom of curlicue frame; spine gilt with the (short) title, full author name, and a design that is cognate but not identical to the front cover.
Inside Book Covers: plain pages
Paper Edges: gilt on top; side and bottom edges are uneven, top edge is even
Illustrations: includes a List of Illustrations - and they look like photographs
Comments:
- opposite the title page, a photograph "General View, looking to the Bosphorus from Stamboul"; paper between photo and title page
- has a Table of Contents
- has an index
Pedagogical Uses/Notes:
- Late 19th-Century American Text Production
- Travel Literature
- Orientalism and the Exotic
- Illustrations
