Spanish Painting, text by A. De Beruete Y Moret (Director of the Prado Museum, Madrid),The Studio, Ltd, 1921 (London). Hardback book in orange cloth boards, gilt titling to spine, 35pp text and 52 plates of which 10 very nice tipped-in color plates, the remainder being monotone. Monotone plates on gloss stock, tipped-in plates mounted on heavy black stock. Artists include Goya, Velazquez, El Greco, De Ribalta, Sorolla, Masriera, Pinazo, Gil, De Sotomayor, Sancha. De Zurbaran, Murillo, Rosales, Zuloaga, Castelucho, Ruarich and others.

Also noteworthy for this copy is the elephant bookplate of Baron Leverhulme of Bolton Le Moors inside front cover. Baron and later Viscount Leverhulme was an industrialist and philanthropist in Scotland. George Wilbur Brownley 1926 signature also. Scarce book with a beautiful bookplate in very good condition, with heavy age toning to endpapers.