Dictionnaire raisonné de l'architecture française du XIe au XVIe siècle
Viollet-le-Duc's 1854 Paris dictionary of French architecture from the 11th to 16th centuries, published by B. Bance for architects and students of medieval building. Its engravings are technical line drawings of Gothic masonry: stone tracery and crockets, a cluster pier with plan, a flying-buttress or spire timber frame with a statue, and a carved corbel. A designer can borrow their precise, schematic linework and the way plans, elevations and cutaway views sit together on one page.
