Robert W. Berger
Versailles: The Château of Louis XIV.
The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1985. Monographs on the Fine Arts. First edition. 0271004126 xii/108 pages and 66 unnumbered pages of plates.
Large-format volume, measuring approximately 9" x 11.5", is bound in black cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Book displays very light shelfwear. Binding is firm. Interior is clean and bright. 
"The chapters in this book are detailed studies of Louis XIV's new Château de Versailles (the Enveloppe) and its major ceremonial spaces. All of these features are extant and very well preserved save for the Escalier des Ambassadeurs, destroyed not by war or revolution but by order of Louis XV in the mid-eighteenth century." (Preface)