Folio. Volume I: Text: [1], 113 pp. double column per page, half-title, title printed in red & black, Volume II & III: 204 plates, (1 coloured) + 224 illus. (6 coloured), contemporary morocco professionally rebacked, generally rather dusty, internally dusty with smudging to margins, edges brittle, some creasing to corners, Ex-library copy SWAF including perforated stamps at titles, but plates are otherwise free of markings, Wasmuth, Berlin, 1912.

Synopsis

Most sumptuously produced representation of all kind of architectural monuments surviving in early 20th century Constantinople. The author, a leading German art historian, was allowed by the Turkish government to take photographs and measurements freely in mosques, palaces, medrassas, khans, cemeteries etc. His photographs, printed on thin cardboard leaves, are unrivalled by modern works in brightness, sharpness and size. They are accompanied by drawings of plans and reconstruction. The collection may be called the first complete survey of antique, Byzantine and Islamic architecture.
Ref: Creswell 453.