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Title: Cathedrals of Spain

Author: John A. (John Allyne) Gade

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CATHEDRALS OF SPAIN

[Illustration: Photo by J. Lacoste, Madrid

NEW CATHEDRAL]

[Illustration: SALAMANCA]

CATHEDRALS OF SPAIN

by

JOHN ALLYNE GADE

Fully Illustrated

[Illustration]

Boston and New York
Houghton Mifflin Company
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1911

Copyright, 1911, by John A. Gade
All Rights Reserved

Published February 1911

TO
THE LAST CHATELAINE
OF FROGNER HOVEDGAARD

IN REVERENCE, GRATITUDE
AND AFFECTION

PREFACE

In the last dozen years many English books on Spain have appeared. They
have dealt with their subject from the point of view of the artist or
the historian, the archaeologist, the politician, or the mere sight-seer.
The student of architecture, or the traveler, desiring a more intimate
or serious knowledge of the great cathedrals, has had nothing to consult
since Street published his remarkable book some forty years ago. There
have been artistic impressions, as well as guide-book recitations, by
the score. Some have been excellent, though few have surpassed the older
ones of Dumas, pere, and Gautier, or Baedeker's later guide-book. A year
ago appeared the second and last volume of Senor Lampe