8vo. xiii, [1], 390 pp., [2 adverts], 16 plates including a frontispiece portrait, half title, original embossed cloth, slightly rubbed round edges, index, Bath Public Library blindstamps and label verso front cover, shelf reference on spine, occasional foxing, previous owner’s inscription on front fly leaf, Herbert Jenkins Ltd, London, second edition, 1916.

Synopsis

First edition appeared in the same year 1916. This work is regarded as essential reading for the study of the Ottoman constitutional revolution of 1908.
Sir Edwin Pears (1835 – 1919) was a British barrister, author and historian. He lived in Constantinople for about forty years and he is known for his 1911 book Turkey and its People. Pears settled in Constantinople in 1873. He practised in the consular courts and became president of the European bar there. He rose to become one of the leaders of the British colony in Constantinople. He travelled much through Turkish dominions, and studied Turkish history from both the Turkish and foreign perspectives.