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 Elevation of the body of the building behinde, which looketh towards the Court of the nineth Place, divided according to the second Manner.

THe Body of the Building behinde shall have its Cellars underneath the Building, which shall have nine feet un∣der the Joysts, or under the Vault, whereof four feet nine inches shall be above the levell of the Court, and they shall descend thereinto by nine steps of six inches and four parts each of them, by reason of their steps which shall be ascended from the Court. The other four feet three inches above, will make with the thick∣ness of the Joysts and Plancher five feet, the which they shall ascend by ten steps, whereof three shall be in the Court, and the other seven in the Turning of the stair-case, which is upon the Court, as hath been said here above.

The first story from the floor of the Hall unto under the Joysts, shall have fourteen feet, and containing the thickness of the Joysts and Plancher fourteen feet nine inches, to the which they shall ascend by thirty steps, having five inches and one part of height each of them: the which shall be distributed by the half upon each Turning, as hath been said in the e∣levation of the Body of the Building before.

The second story shall have of height twelve feet under the Joysts, and containing the thickness of the Joysts and Plan∣cher, twelve feet nine inches, to the which they shall ascend by twenty six steps of five inches, and eleven Parts each of height.

The third story shall have of height ten feet nine inches, containg the thickness of the joysts and Plancher, to the which story we shall ascend by steps equal in height to those of the second story of five inches eleven Parts, and thereby those shall be twenty two thereof.

Above may be made Granaries.

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[illustration] floor plan
The Groudplot of the first Story,

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

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[illustration] front elevation
The Front to the Street,

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[illustration] architectural diagram
The Vpright to the Court,

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