hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: poor. Reprint. Tall quarto (definitely oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners to boards Much more wear and scuffing to dust jacket and tears at the edges. Many drawing and b&w illustrations. An attractive facsimile of this important 2 volume work n one large volume. Krafft was a French architect of Austrian or German origin, who seems to have written far more about architecture than building. However, his works are well done, esp. around Paris, with great illustrations by the Rasonnette family. Uncommon.