About the cover illustration
The figure on the cover of Electron in Action is captioned “A Gypsy Woman.” The illustration is taken from a collection of costumes of people, both simple and grand, of the Ottoman Empire, published on January 1, 1802, by William Miller of Old Bond Street, London. The title page is missing from the collection, and we’ve so far been unable to track it down. The book’s table of contents identifies the figures in both English and French, and each illustration also bears the names of two artists who worked on it, both of whom would no doubt be surprised to find their art gracing the front cover of a computer programming book 200 years later.
The collection was purchased by a Manning editor at an antiquarian flea market ...
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