Dictionnaire raisonné de l'architecture française du XIe au XVIe siècle
A French architectural dictionary by Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, published in Paris by B. Bance in 1854, treating French architecture from the eleventh to the sixteenth century for students and architects. The first plate is a bust-length engraved portrait of a bearded man in a dark coat and cravat, set on a cream page. The second is a line engraving of three medieval figures, a monk holding a scroll, a worker bending over a compass-like instrument on the ground, and an armoured knight with a shield, a clear lesson in how draughtsmen staged working scenes.
