Traité de la construction des théatres. Historique de la construction des théatres, principes généraux de la construction des theatres modernes ..
A late nineteenth-century French architectural treatise by Alphonse Gosset, published in Paris in 1886, setting out the history and general principles of modern theatre construction for architects and engineers. Its plates are measured technical drawings: plans of theatre halls with numbered rooms, cross-section elevations of facades and a horseshoe auditorium seating plan, all in sepia line work on cream paper. A designer could take from them the clean, schematic grammar of architectural plans, with their dense tiered seating rings, column grids and labelled key lists.
