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 Front to the Street, of the body of the building of the nineth Place, divided according to the fourth Manner.

THe body of the building on the Front, hath the same levell, with that of the Court, and shall have height from the Floor, fifteen feet and an half, and with the thickness of the Joysts and Plancher, sixteen feet three inches, to the which they shall ascend by thirty one steps, to wit, four in the Court, which shall ascend two feet, and twenty seven in the stair-case, which shall have six inches and four parts each of them.

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

The third story shall have ten feet and an half under the Joysts, and eleven feet three inches, containing the thickness of the Joysts and Plancher; to the which they shall ascend by twenty four steps of equal height with those of the second story, which are five inches eight parts.

And above shall be made Chambers in the Garrets, about nine feet of height under the Joysts, or else Garners, if one will have it.

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