The titles consist of an elegant, ornate font and almost each page has finely painted illustrations. The text is organized in justified type and in a serif font.
The book has many and especially large illustrations, some of them even over 2 pages. They are very detailed and beautifully drawn. Often after large illustrations it has 1-2 free pages, so that the drawings have more of an effect. Additionally they are framed to separate them from the page. In some chapters small illustrations support the text and there are several between paragraphs. Sometimes there are also chapters with a long text and then the pictures follow each other only at the end.
So in this book, both text and images are essential, because the images not only support the text, but are often the whole explanation in itself.
The illustrations are architectural drawings of illustrations of the tools, their mechanisms and wooden constructions. The individual components of the constructions are numbered with numbers, which are explained in a legend. The constructions are detached from their environment, so they are only drawn on a white background and not on a building site or a real house. The illustrations are not colored, but only painted with black ink and very precisely and finely hatched.
The book can be used as a manual I think, because it has many clear illustrated pictures that give you a quick understanding of the constructions. But it also has a lot of text in some sections, which gives you a deeper insight behind the history of building. That’s why it is also very useful as an academic book, because it not only has information about the carpentry, but also a large part at the end of the book, which deals intensively with the column orders, so you can conclude that the book is based on a lot of research and is not just a means to an end.