Histoire d'un dessinateur: comment on apprend à dessiner
Viollet-le-Duc's 1881 drawing manual Histoire d'un dessinateur teaches beginners to draw, written in French for students of art and architecture, held by Heidelberg University Library. Its plates are fine line engravings of perspective constructions, prismatic and cylindrical forms, a trellis fence and a carved panelled door, showing how geometry and ornament are built up step by step for a designer to study.
