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The habitations of man in all ages

Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879, Bucknall, Benjamin, d. 1895 · 1876 · Boston, J.R. Osgood and Company · 18 pictures

A survey of dwellings through history, written by the French architect Viollet-le-Duc and translated by Benjamin Bucknall, published in Boston in 1876 for a general readership interested in architecture. The pictures are plain ink line drawings of building plans, reconstructed courtyard houses, a multi-storey stone dwelling and a pair of kiln-like hearths with a scale bar, giving a designer clear models for layout, massing and vernacular stonework.

Dwellings

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