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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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.
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Subject terms: Architecture, Domestic -- France -- Early works to 1800.; Building -- France -- Early works to 1800.
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The second Story of the Division of the tenth Place.

THis second Story containeth a Chamber over the Stable, and another over the Kit∣chen, having each of them fifteen feet broad upon twenty seven of depth. And as for the principal body of the building, it consisteth in two Chambers and a Ward∣robe; the first over the Hall shall have twenty four feet broad upon the whole depth of twenty two feet. The Wardrobe joyning to the said Chamber shall have twelve feet broad upon seventeen and an half of depth, by reason of the Passage of four feet which is on the Front. On the side of this Wardrobe shall be the Stair-case, and joyning unto that the Chamber, having the same breadth and depth with the first. And at the two ends of the two Chambers shall be two Closets, having the same breadth and depth with the galleries of the story below. You may make Chimnies in these Closets if you please.