The story of a house
An 1874 Boston edition of Viollet-le-Duc's narrative on how a country house is designed and built, translated by George M. Towle for young and general readers learning construction from the ground up. The plates are fine-line engravings of scaffolding joints, masonry courses, staircase plans and sections, cornice profiles with dimension figures and letter keys, usable as technical line art, measured-drawing motifs, and lettered diagram callouts.
