Réimpression de l'architecture française
A reprint of Jacques-François Blondel's French architectural treatise, issued in 1905 from Heidelberg University Library, presenting plates of Parisian town houses and hôtels for architects and students. The pictures are rotated elevation drawings in fine black line with hatched shading, showing rows of tall windows, arched ground-floor openings, balconies, dormers and chimneys. A designer could take from them the clean architectural facade grid, the rhythm of repeated windows and the classical ornament details.
