L'architecture et art de bien bastir, diuisée en dix liures
This is a 1553 Paris edition of Leon Battista Alberti's architectural treatise, L'architecture et art de bien bastir, printed for the French bookseller I. Keruer and aimed at builders and architecture students. Its pictures are crisp woodcut plans and elevations of classical door and window frames, with dimension scales and lettered keys, and a designer could take from them the proportions and rhythm of rusticated stone bonding and Doric and Ionic-style column bases and entablatures.
