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Images from Turrets Towers and Temples – The Great Buildings of the World, as Seen and Described by Famous Writers edited and translated by Esther Singleton.

The book was published before 1922 in the USA and is out of copyright.

Title: Turrets Towers and Temples

Author: Singleton, Esther

Published by: Dodd, Mead & Co.

City: New York

Date: 1899

Total items: 8

Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.

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Front Cover

The front cover is green with gold foil. [$]

Mosque of Cordova

The interior of the great Mosque of Cordova, the La Mezquita. Abd al-Rahman I began construction in A.D. 785 (give or take a year). The stones are actually red and white. The building was [...] [more...] [$]

The Alhambra

“When you issue from these dark passages into this large space flooded with light, the effect is similar to that produced by a diorama. You can almost fancy that an enchanter’s wand has transported you to the Orient of four or five centuries ago. Time, which changes everything [...] [more...] [$]

The Tower of London

The main keep (the White Tower) was probably build around 1070, so it’ll be having its thousandth birthday soon. [$]

The Cathedral of Lincoln.

“The greater part of the front may be as old as the time of its founder, Bishop Remigius,¹ at the end of the Eleventh Century” (p. 132) [more...] [$]

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