The art of fair building represented in the figures of several uprights of houses, with their ground-plots, fitting for persons of several qualities : wherein is divided each room and office according to their most convenient occasion, with their heights, depths, lengths, and breadths according to proportion : with rules and directions for the placing of the doors, vvindows, chimnies, beds, stairs, and other conveniencies ... : also a description of the names and proportions of the members belonging to the framing of the timber-work, with directions and examples for the placing of them / by Pierre Le Muet ... ; published in English by Robert Pricke ...

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The art of fair building represented in the figures of several uprights of houses, with their ground-plots, fitting for persons of several qualities : wherein is divided each room and office according to their most convenient occasion, with their heights, depths, lengths, and breadths according to proportion : with rules and directions for the placing of the doors, vvindows, chimnies, beds, stairs, and other conveniencies ... : also a description of the names and proportions of the members belonging to the framing of the timber-work, with directions and examples for the placing of them / by Pierre Le Muet ... ; published in English by Robert Pricke ...
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Le Muet, Pierre, 1591-1669.
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London :: Printed for Robert Pricke ...,
1670.
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Architecture, Domestic -- France -- Early works to 1800.
Building -- France -- Early works to 1800.
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"The art of fair building represented in the figures of several uprights of houses, with their ground-plots, fitting for persons of several qualities : wherein is divided each room and office according to their most convenient occasion, with their heights, depths, lengths, and breadths according to proportion : with rules and directions for the placing of the doors, vvindows, chimnies, beds, stairs, and other conveniencies ... : also a description of the names and proportions of the members belonging to the framing of the timber-work, with directions and examples for the placing of them / by Pierre Le Muet ... ; published in English by Robert Pricke ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A47667.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 12, 2024.

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The Ʋpright on the front, and also the Building in the rear, of the seventh Place.

THe floor of the Bodie of the Building in the Front shall have the same level with that of the Court. The first story shall have in height fourteen feet six inches under the Joysts, and fifteen feet three inches, containing the thickness of the Joysts and Plancher, unto which they shall ascend by three steps of six inches high apiece, which shall be the level of the foot of the stairs, and of the body of the building behind, the which shall have of height under the Joysts thirteen feet, and containing the thickness of the Joysts and Plancher, thirteen feet nine inches; to which they shall ascend by twenty four steps, of six inches and ten parts of an inch apiece, which shall bring you as well into the bodie of the building before as that behind, seeing that they have the same level.

The second storie, as well of that before as that behind, shall be elevated twelve feet under the Joysts, and twelve feet nine inches, comprehending the thickness of the Joysts and Plan∣cher, unto which they shall ascend by twentie four steps, being six inches and five parts each of them.

The third storie, as well before as behind, shall have in height ten feet under the Joysts, and together with the thickness of the Joysts and Plancher ten feet nine inches, unto which they shall ascend by twentie four steps of five inches and five parts apiece.

Above are Granaries or Chambers in garrets, from eight to nine feet high under the Joysts,

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