Architecture generale de Vitruve reduite en abregé
Claude Perrault's 1681 French abridgement of Vitruvius's architectural treatise, published in Lyon for booksellers and a Paris retailer, aimed at architects and students of classical building. The pictures are engraved plates of Corinthian capitals, column bases and geometric construction diagrams, precise linework in which a designer could find classical ornament and proportion systems to adapt.
