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Juan De Contreras Y Lopez De Ayala, Marques De Loyzoya. Translated By James Brockway. Listings

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1 Juan de Contreras y Lopez de Ayala, Marques de Loyzoya. Translated by James Brockway. THE ESCORIAL AND LA GRANJA DE SAN ILDEFONSO. GREAT GALLERIES SERIES.
Oldbourne, London, (1967). 
157 pp, small 4to, HC in dust jacket. Beautifully illustrated with many b&w and color photographs. A study of two imposing, but very different, Spanish royal residences and their collections - "The Escorial - built as a memorial church, a Pantheon , and a retreat for the solace and meditation of the ruler Philip II, (an exercise in) sober severe classicsm...La Granja de San Ildefonso, surrounded by elaborate Baroque gardens, exemplifies the frivolous paganism of the Bourbons and is th e m o s t i mpressive establishment of eighteenth century Spain...." Minor edgewear/rubbing to boards. Dust jacket has light edgewear/wrinkling, minor rubbing. VG/VG 
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