Product Description: Germain Boffrand's "Livre d'Architecture" is one of the most original books on architecture ever written in France. Translated for the first time by David Britt, Boffrand's text is here accompanied by an extensive introduction and notes written by Caroline van Eck who explains Boffrand's position within 18th-century debates about architectural aesthetics...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)