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THE SPANISH SERIES
GRANADA AND
THE ALHAMBRA
THE SPANISH SERIES
EDITED BY ALBERT F. CALVERT
Goya Toledo Madrid Seville Murillo Cordova El Greco Velazquez The Prado The Escorial Royal Palaces of Spain Granada and Alhambra Spanish Arms and Armour Leon, Burgos and Salamanca Valladolid, Oviedo, Segovia Zamora, Avila and Zaragoza |
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TO
H.I.M. THE EMPRESS EUGÉNIE
THIS SOUVENIR OF THAT FAIR GRANADAN HOME
FROM WHICH SHE CARRIED
THE CROWN OF SPANISH BEAUTY
TO GRACE THE THRONE OF FRANCE
IS DEDICATED
IN ACCORDANCE WITH HER MAJESTY’S
GRACIOUS PERMISSION
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Although the admission may be construed by the censorious as betraying alack of becoming diffidence, I am tempted to believe that no apologywill be demanded for the publication of this volume by that section ofthe reading public for which it has been chiefly compiled. My temeritygoes even further, and I anticipate with some confidence that visitorsto the Alhambra, and pilgrims to that famous Mecca of Moorishworkmanship, will recognise in this book an earnest attempt to supply along-felt want. When I paid my first visit to Granada some years ago, Iwas surprised