Essai sur l'architecture
By: par le p. Laugier ...
Contributors: Duchesne, Nicolas-Bonaventure, d. 1765; Fonbonne, Anne, 18th cent
Edition: Nouvelle edition, revue, corrigée, & augmentée, avec un dictionnaire des termes et des planches qui en facilitent l'explication.
Publisher: Chez Duchesne ...
Published: 1755
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 316
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Architecture
Notes: The statement "par le p. Laugier ..." appears after the edition statement.

Signatures: a-cp8s A-Vp8s.

Errata: p. [4] (second series).

Title page printed in red and black; title vignette; head- and tail-pieces; engraved frontispiece illustration.

Some plates are signed: Fonbonne sculp.

Publisher's advertisements: p. [4] at end.

Includes index.

Thacher, II, p. 56 (French Revolution)

Library's copies 1 and 2 lack frontispiece.

Library's copy 1 bound in calf; spine gilt tooled; edges stained red.

Library's copy 2 bound in mottled calf; spine and boards gilt tooled; gilt label with title and author's name on spine; edges stained red; manuscript notes on p. [ii].

Library's copy 3 bound in mottled calf; spine gilt tooled; gilt label on spine; marbled edges; Ulrich Middeldorf's label on front pastedown