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Title: The Cathedrals of Northern Spain

Author: Charles Rudy

Release Date: April 12, 2010 [EBook #31965]

Language: English

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_THE_ CATHEDRALS OF NORTHERN SPAIN

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_The Cathedral Series_

_The following, each 1 vol., library
12mo, cloth, gilt top, profusely illustrated.
$2.50_

_The Cathedrals of Northern
France BY FRANCIS MILTOUN_

_The Cathedrals of Southern
France BY FRANCIS MILTOUN_

_The Cathedrals of England BY MARY J. TABER_

The following, each 1 vol., library
12mo, cloth, gilt top, profusely illustrated.
Net, $2.00

_The Cathedrals and Churches
of the Rhine BY FRANCIS MILTOUN_

_The Cathedrals of Northern
Spain BY CHARLES RUDY_

_L. C. PAGE & COMPANY
New England Building, Boston, Mass._

[Illustration: LEON CATHEDRAL

(_See page 154_)]

The Cathedrals of
Northern Spain

THEIR HISTORY AND THEIR
ARCHITECTURE; TOGETHER
WITH MUCH OF INTEREST CONCERNING
THE BISHOPS, RULERS,
AND OTHER PERSONAGES IDENTIFIED
WITH THEM

BY

CHARLES RUDY

Illustrated

BOSTON L. C. PAGE &
COMPANY MDCCCCVI

_Copyright, 1905_
BY L. C. PAGE & COMPANY
(INCORPORATED)

_All rights reserved_

Published October, 1905

_COLONIAL PRESS
Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co.
Boston, U. S. A._

_TO ALL TRUE
LOVERS OF SPAIN,
OTHERWISE CALLED
HISPANOFILOS_

PREFACE

It is _a la mode_ to write prefaces. Some of us write good ones, others
bad, and most of us write neither good nor bad ones.

The chapter entitled "General Remarks" is the real introduction to the
book, so in these lines I shall pen a few words of self-introduction to
such readers as belong to the class to whom I have dedicated this
volume.

My love for Spain is unbounded. As great as is my love for the people,