Abecedaire ou rudiment d'archelogie : architecture religieuse ...
Arcisse de Caumont's Abécédaire ou rudiment d'archéologie (Caen, 1867) is a French primer on religious architecture, written to teach students and antiquarians to date churches by their forms. Wood engravings and line drawings isolate arcades, carved capitals, foliate cornices, twisted shafts and cutaway elevations, giving designers a vocabulary of Romanesque and Gothic ornament in clean, hatched outline.
