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 ...

About this Item

Title
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 ...
Author
Le Muet, Pierre, 1591-1669.
Publication
London :: Printed for Robert Pricke ...,
1670.
Rights/Permissions

This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. Searching, reading, printing, or downloading EEBO-TCP texts is reserved for the authorized users of these project partner institutions. Permission must be granted for subsequent distribution, in print or electronically, of this text, in whole or in part. Please contact project staff at eebotcp-info@umich.edu for further information or permissions.

Subject terms
Architecture, Domestic -- France -- Early works to 1800.
Building -- France -- Early works to 1800.
Link to this Item
http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A47667.0001.001
Cite this Item
"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.

Pages

The second Story of the third Division of the eighth Place.

THe second story consisteth in two Chambers, each being accompanied with a Wardrobe and Closet. The first Chamber on the back part, and upon the Hall shall have twenty feet in square, and the rest of the depth (which is fifteen feet and an half) shall be for the Wardrobe upon the same breadth. The Closet shall be above the Passage, and shall have nine feet of breadth upon twelve of depth. The second Chamber upon the Kitchen, having eighteen feet in breadth, and of the same depth with the foregoing of twenty feet: and the Closet shall be upon the back part over the Larder, upon the whole depth of the Court, which is twenty feet. As for the Wardrobe, it shall contain the same space with the Stable, upon the which it is placed.

Above the level of the second story is the Elevation that looketh towards the Court.

Page [unnumbered]

[illustration] architectural diagram

The Front to the street,

The Groundplot of the first Story,

Page [unnumbered]

Page [unnumbered]

[illustration] architectural diagram
The Groundplot of the second story,

Page [unnumbered]

Page [unnumbered]

[illustration] architectural diagram

the Front to the street

The Groundplot of the first storie

Page [unnumbered]

Page [unnumbered]

[illustration] architectural diagram

to the Court,

The second story.

Do you have questions about this content? Need to report a problem? Please contact us.