About the cover illustration
The caption for the illustration on the cover of React in Action is “The Capitan Pasha, Derya Bey, admiral of the Turkish navy.” The capitan pasha was a high-admiral with supreme command of the navy of the Ottoman Empire. The illustration is taken from a collection of costumes 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 have been unable to track it down to date. The book’s table of contents identifies the figures in both English and French, and each illustration 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 ...
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