Marc-Antoine Laugier
Essai sur l'architecture. Nouvelle edition, revue, corrigée, & augmentée; avec un dictionnaire des termes, et des planches qui en facilitent l'explication.
Farnborough, Hants, England: Gregg Press Limited, 1966. Reprint of a work originally published in Paris, Chez Duchesne, 1775. xiii/311 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 8", has been rebound in red cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book shows light shelfwear. Binding is firm. Previous owners' names are neatly written at top of front pastedown. Pages are clean and bright. Plates appear at rear of volume.
Best-known work of the Jesuit priest and architectural theorist Marc-Antoine Laugier (1713-1769), in which he discusses aspects of Renaissance and post-Renaissance architecture, including commentary on columns, entablature and pediments.