An influential Victorian artist and architect's peerless collection displays full-color plates that expertly reproduce original designs from the grand Moorish palace. This splendid volume ventures inside the Alhambra's stone walls, gates, and towers for a lavishly illustrated survey of the castle's hidden treasures — the majestic decorations within its grand halls, corridors, patios, and balconies. Dover original selection from The Alhambra: Being a Brief Record of the Arabian Conquest of the Penninsula with a Particular Account of the Mohammedan Architecture and Decoration by Albert F. Calvert, John Lane, The Bodley Head, London and John Lane Company, New York, 1906.
Spanish Tile Designs in Full Color by Carol Belanger Grafton 97 full-color, royalty-free designs from turn-of-the-20th-century catalogs incorporate stylized flowers, leaves, and other plant forms, abstract and geometric figures, stars, suns, and more.
The Illustrator and the Book in England from 1790 to 1914 by Gordon N. Ray Combines essays, bibliographical descriptions, and 295 illustrations to chronicle a golden era in the art of the illustrated book. Artists range from Blake, Turner, Rowlandson, and Morris to Caldecott, Greenaway, Beardsley, and Rackham.
