Ornate, decorative binding showing pale green, pink and gilt Moorish patterns and decorative motifs on white cloth. Slight fraying of spine ends and corners. In original pale blue, stiff cloth dust; a few small stains, each with small hole (one at spine tail, one at edge fold). Top edge gilt. Handsome owner bookplate on decorative front endpaper of each volume and inked signature on fly leaf. Illustrated with a multitude of photogravure illustrations of art, architecture, people and place all protected with captioned tissue guards. Text within ornamental frames printed in red and grey. Irving's romantic rendition of Ferdinand and Isabella's siege of the kingdom of Granada presenting "a lively picture of the war...characteristic of the times, so much of the material having been drawn from contemporary historians... One of the great charms of this work lies in the poetic yet truthful descriptions of the historic site mentioned in the narrative making the work of peculiar value to the traveller through that romantic country." A Very Good copy of the fascinating romance of the fall of the Moorish kingdom of Granada. ; AGAPIDA EDITION. 2 VOLUMES; 8vo

Decorative Bindings Spain Photo-Illustrated Neilson Taylor Parker Moors