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favour with which this book has been received, by 

 having the present edition produced with the 

 greatest care on special paper, and by the addition 

 of a number of new illustrations, including some 

 half-tone and coloured plates reproduced from the 

 Monumentos Arquitectonicos de Espana and other 

 sources, which I have acquired since it was first 

 produced. It will be seen that several of the 

 coloured pictures in this book illustrate designs 

 which are common to the Arabian ornamentation 

 to be found in Cordova and Seville, and, as rJeing 

 representative of the Moresco work of the period, 

 they also appear in the companion volume on 

 Moorish Remains in Spain, but it may be stated 

 that the whole of the plates reproduced here are 

 from photographs and drawings secured or 

 specially made to illustrate The Alhambra. In its 

 pictorial appeal it has been my ambition to make 

 this edition as worthy of its subject as means and 

 ability permit, and I offer this assurance as an 

 earnest of my sincere appreciation of the generous 

 manner in which the Press and public rewarded 

 my previous effort. 



A. F. C. 



