Stirling-Maxwell, Sir William (publisher) - Coecke van Aelst, Pieter The Turks in MDXXXIII a series of drawings made in that year at Constantinople by Peter Coeck of Aelst … with an introduction by Sir William Stirling Maxwell. London & Edinburgh: privately printed, 1873. Large oblong folio, printed in red and black, with engraved title-page, headings and tailpieces, illustrations in the text and 12 separate plates (including title-page and colophon to Coecke’s work), original green cloth, edges slightly rubbed and covers slightly marked, one of a hundred copies

Note: Atabey 261; Blackmer 379. The facsimile made from the British Library copy of the original work, Moeures et fachons de faire des Turcz, published at Antwerp in 1533, with the sheets on a piece of cloth with the original prints measuring 15 feet wide. Stirling-Maxwell suggests that the original was either intended to be kept as a roll or possibly a wall hanging. To achieve publication in book form he made various adjustments to the size of the reproductions. The paper was chosen to resemble the colour and texture of the original. Provenance: The late Lord David Douglas Hamilton. Christie’s The property of Archibald Stirling of Keir, 1995 lot 712