Liure d'architecture de Iacques Androuet, du Cerceau : auquel sont contenues diuerses ordonnances de plants et éleuations de bastiment pour seigneurs, gentilshommes, & autres ... : tres-vtile et necessaire a ceux qui veulent bastir, à ce qu'ils soient instruits, & cognoissent les frais & la despense qu'il y conuient faire
A 1615 Paris architecture treatise by Jacques Androuet du Cerceau, issued for the Paris publisher of his earlier work and addressed to lords, gentlemen and anyone planning to build, with plans of ground floors and front elevations of country houses. The pages pair each elevation with its plan, drawn in fine engraved lines with labelled rooms, courtyards and gardens. A designer could take from them the clear plan-and-elevation layout of French Renaissance châteaux, with symmetrical wings, central courts and parterre gardens drawn as geometric patterns.
