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 May 15, 2024.
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The fifth Division of the nineth Place, of the same breadth of fifty seven feet, upon one hundred and twenty of depth.
THis fifth Division of the nineth Place of fifty seven feet in breadth, upon one hundred and twenty in depth, consisteth likewise in two bodies of a build∣ing, the first on the Front, of twenty feet deep upon the whole breadth, the which is divided into a Stable of thirteen feet broad, in the corner of which is a Coach-house, behind which is the place for a bed. On the side of the Stable is the Gate for the Coach of nine feet broad, and a Kitchen of twenty three feet: at one of the corners of which, half within and half without the Work, is the stair-case, in the shape of a Vice or winding stair, having ten feet in square, and at one of the cor∣ners of the said stairs shall be the Privy. The Court shall have thirty nine feet in depth upon the whole breadth, and from the Court they shall ascend by six steps upon an open Gallery, which shall be separated into two by the stair-case situate in the middest, which shall be six∣teen feet in square, and in the middest of it is the Passage to enter into the Hall. Each part of the open galleries shall have nineteen feet broad upon seventeen deep.
The body of the building behind, joyning to the said open gallery, shall have twenty two feet deep, and consisteth in an Hall and a Chamber. The Hall shall have thirty six feet broad, and the Chamber twenty. And within the garden, at the two corners as well of the Hall as the Chamber, shall be advanced two Closets of twelve feet deep upon nine of breadth. The garden shall have the rest of the depth upon the whole breadth.