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 Gothic building. Its plates are measured technical drawings: plans of churches and cathedrals, enlarged sections of piers and capitals, and stone detail. A designer can take from them the clean, rule-based logic of historical line drawing, with ground plans, sections and dimensioned details presented as diagrams.
