C. Frankland | Travels to and from Constantinople, London, 1829, 2 vols, calf, Countess of Beauchamp's copy

Property from the Loverdos Collection

Charles Frankland

Travels to and from Constantinople, in the years 1827 and 1828. London: S. & R. Bentley for Henry Colburn, 1829

First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo (211 x 127mm.), hand-coloured engraved frontispiece in each volume, 29 wood-engraved or aquatint plates including four maps, nineteenth century diced calf, spines with raised bands in six compartments, modern morocco labels to second and fourth compartments, some light spotting, a few small closed tears to some folding plates/maps (a couple with small professional restorations), spines slightly worn

THE COUNTESS OF BEAUCHAMP’S COPY. This account includes sections on Greece, Turkey, Syria and Egypt. The plates include costumes and views of Constantinople, Nauplion, Smyrna, Damascus, Baalbec and Beirut.

LITERATURE:

Abbey, Travel, 26; Atabey 460; Blackmer 628; Weber I, 174

PROVENANCE:

Lady Susan Caroline Lygon (née Eliot) (1801-1835), Countess of Beauchamp: bookplates and ownership inscriptions to titles (dated 1829)