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 Elevation of the principal body of the building on the side of the Court of the nineth Place, divided according to the first manner, which body of the building is that on the back part.

THe body of the building on the back part shall be elevated above the level of the Court two feet, to which they shall ascend by four steps taken in the said Court; and to descend from the Floor of the Building to the Garden, they shall take two steps in the Passage of the Stair-case, and two within the Garden, thereby to allow to the Gate of the said Garden a coming forth convenient.

The height of the first story from the Floor shall be of thirteen feet nine inches, containing the thick∣ness of the Joysts and Plancher, to which height they shall ascend by twenty eight steps, divided in halves upon the two turnings of the Stair-case, which steps shall have five inches eleven parts of height each of them.

The second story shall have of height twelve feet nine inches, containing the thickness of the Joysts and Plancher, to which they shall ascend by twenty eight steps, of five inches and an half each of them.

The third story shall have in height eleven feet nine inches, containing the thickness of the Joysts and Plancher, to which they shall ascend by twenty eight steps, of five inches apiece.

And he which would keep in the second and third story the same height of steps as in the first, which are five inches and eleven parts, he should find twenty six thereof in the second story, and twenty four in the third; wich change one may also make throughout all the other Elevations.

Above shall be Granaries or Chambers in Garrets, from eight to nine feet high under the Joysts.

Page [unnumbered]

[illustration] floor plan
The Ground plot of the first Story,

Page [unnumbered]

Page [unnumbered]

[illustration] floor plan
The Groundplot of the second Story,

Page [unnumbered]

Page [unnumbered]

[illustration] front elevation of building

Page [unnumbered]

Page [unnumbered]

[illustration] architectural diagram
next the Court.

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