PREFACE TO NEW EDITION xvii 



As I have remarked in the preface to the volume 

 on Cordova, it may be thought that in the present 

 work I have given an excess of detail of Arabian 

 decoration and ornament, but it has been my aim 

 to provide the last word on Moorish art so far at 

 least as the pictorial representation of it is con- 

 cerned wherever I have dealt with it in Spain. 

 To the general reader these reproductions of 

 tracery and elaborate detail may seem superfluous, 

 but they will, I trust, lend to the book an addi- 

 tional interest in the eyes of students and artists, 

 for whose delectation they are included here. 



A. F. C. 



