8vo. [1], xiii, 492 pp., 8 photogravures plates including a frontispiece, many halftone illustrations in text, original gilt-lettered & -decorated, red- & green panelled beige cloth, other edges untrimmed, minor wear, some light dust smudging, attractive copy in slightly dusty original cloth, gilt in excellent state of preservation, Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, first edition, 1903.

Synopsis

Anna Bowman Dodd, née Blake (1855–1929), was a native of New York City, the daughter of a merchant. She wrote a number of other works in her career, including a biography of Tallyrand and books on travel including this work. Dodd documents the changes in Turkey, encouraged by the embrace of modernity. She discusses Turkish women’s rights, harems and marriage, the management of the household, education, slavery, the Sultans reign, and nationalist movements in the Ottoman Empire.