xvi PREFACE TO NEW EDITION 



Those limits were still further encroached upon 

 by the additional wealth of illustration which 

 resulted from the decision to include the city of 

 Granada in a work which, in previous issues, 

 had been devoted entirely to the palace of the 

 Alhambra,andthe new pictorial matter so acquir ed 

 threatened to annex all the space allotted for the 

 text. But little as I liked the idea of further con- 

 densing the letterpress, I was even less inclined 

 to neglect the opportunity of enhancing the 

 pictorial value of the volume. In dealing with 

 the Moorish art of Spain, I have always recognised 

 that the popular want is for pictures rather than 

 the printed word, and I venture to hope that the 

 present volume, which surpasses its costlier pre- 

 decessors in the number of the plates reproduced, 

 will constitute a serviceable if not exhaustive guide 

 to the beautiful Moorish capital, and an artistic 

 remembrancer of its fascinating monuments. 



I have to acknowledge my obligations to Mr. 

 E. B. d'Auvergne for his kind and valuable 

 assistance in the compilation of the text, and for 

 permission to reproduce many of the additional 

 photographs I am indebted to the courtesy of 

 Don Senan y Gonzalez, of Herr Ernst Wasmuth 

 of Berlin, publisher of Uhdes Baudenkmaeler in 

 Span ic ii nnd Portugal, and of Herr Eugen Twiet- 

 meyer of Leipzig, publisher of Junghandel's Die 

 Baukunst Spaniens. 



