Contains 32 articles by Richard Ford from the Edinburgh Review and the Quarterly Reviews, dealing with Spanish subjects. Most are removed from the periodicals and pieced together with extensive pasteovers to provide continuity. The first article is an offprint, with separate t.p.: An historical enquiry into the unchangeable character of a war in Spain. London : John Murray, 1837. Some oversized leaves are folded.

Title page gives dates 1836-1851; articles have publication or hand-written dates through 1857.

Contents from running titles.

The present war in Spain

Transactions of the Institute of Architects : Cob walls, &c

Spanish Theatre

Semilasso in Africa

The banditti of Spain

Spanish genealogy and heraldry

Spanish bull-feasts and bull-fights

Capt. Scott's Travels in Andalusia

Prescott's History of Ferdinand and Isabella

Oliver Twist

Ballad literature

Lockheart's ancient Spanish ballads

Lord Dudley's letters to the Bishop of LLandaff

Borrow's account of the Gipsies of Spain

The Bible in Spain

Velázquez, Diégo Rodriguez de Silva y

Spanish architecture

Miles on the Horse's Foot

The Spanish ladye's love

Journal of a residence in Portugal

Fanny Kemble and Lear in Italy

Head and Stirling on Spanish art

Dog-breaking the Pocket and the Stud / Hutchinson and Hieover

Urquhart's Pillars of Hercules

Ticknor's History of Spanish literature

The British Museum

Bohemian embassy to England, Spain, &c, in 1466

Cloister life of Charles V

Apsley House

Larpent's Journal in Spain

The Caldwell papers

Tom Brown's school-days : rugby reminiscenses.

Theater > Spain.

Spain > Social life and customs.

Spain > Civilization.

Spain > Book reviews.

Spain > Intellectual life.

Spain > History.