The Loves of the Harem: a tale of Constantinople
A sensational serial novel of Ottoman Constantinople written by G. W. M. Reynolds and published in London in 1855 for the cheap-fiction readership that bought his weekly numbers. The wood engravings sit inside two-column letterpress pages and stage melodramatic moments—prostration before a vizier, a woman seized by soldiers, a scimitar raised in a courtyard—with turbans, striped robes, lattice screens and hatched shadow supplying costume detail, gesture studies and interior ornament.
