Twenty years' residence among Bulgarians, Greeks, Albanians, Turks and Armenians by a Consul's daughter and wife. Edited by Stanley Lane Poole.
The People of Turkey Twenty years' residence among Bulgarians, Greeks, Albanians, Turks and Armenians by a Consul's daughter and wife. Edited by Stanley Lane Poole.
John Murray, 1878.
First edition. Two volumes. 8vo. Original mauve cloth decorated in black and red, with gilt vignette of the crescent and star to upper cover and spine, lettered in gilt. A near fine set, toned a little on the spine and trivial wear to the spine ends. Pages unopened beyond p.60 of the first volume.
A scarce account of Blunt's residence in multicultural Ottoman Turkey and Macedonia, firstly as daughter of the British consul in Bursa, and then as wife of John Elijah Blunt, the vice-consul at Skopje at the time of writing. On editing the book eminent orientalist historian Stanley Lane Poole wrote "every page teemed with details of life and character entirely novel to all but Eastern travellers, and much that even to them must be entirely unknown. Every subject connected with the people of Turkey seemed to be fully treated."
Uncommon, with the British Library copy being the only institutionally held copy of the first edition in the UK, and only one other copy appearing at auction in the last fifty years.
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