Dictionnaire raisonné de l'architecture française du XIe au XVIe siècle
A French architectural dictionary by Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, published in Paris in 1854 by B. Bance, covering French architecture from the 11th to the 16th century for architects and students. Its plates are numbered engravings of plans, capitals, and ironwork, drawn with fine hatched line in a precise, technical style. A designer could take from them the clean, measured linework and the dense ornamental vocabulary of foliage, scrolls, and wrought-iron forms.
