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 13, 2024.
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The Division of the eleventh Place of seventy two feet of bredth, upon an hundred and twelve of depth, without the Garden.
THis Place may be divided according to the five ways of the ninth place by aug∣menting the part as well in bredth as in depth, according as it may be found most convenient, and further also according to the Manner that followeth.
It must have two bodies of a Building, the one upon the Front, the other upon the Rear, with a Gallerie, which must joine the one to the other, and the Court in the middle.
The bodie of the Building on the Front must have twentie feet of depth, and its bredth must be divided into a Stable of eighteen feet, a stair-case of nine, a Coach-house of eleven feet, a gate for a Coach of nine, another Coach-house of eight feet, and another Stable of eleven feet and an half.
Next unto the first Stable on the left hand there must be another bodie of a Building, which must joine before unto that behinde, upon the same bredth of the Stable of eighteen feet, the which must be divided into two Chambers, whereof each must joine to its bodie of the building, and that which must joine to the stable must have eighteen feet in square, and that which must joine to the bodie of the Building on the back-part, must have twentie four feet of depth, upon the bredth of eighteen. The two Wardrobes must be between the Chambers of eleven feet of depth each one. The Court must have fiftie two feet of bredth, upon fourtie eight of depth.
Next unto the Court, and before the principal bodie of the Building, must be an open gal∣lerie of fifteen feet of depth, upon the whole bredth of the Court; and next unto the gal∣lerie must be the principal bodie of the Building of twentie two feet of depth, upon the whole bredth of threescore and twelve feet: the which is divided into an Hall upon the left hand, a stair-case, and a Chamber. The Hall must have thirty eight feet and an half of bredth, the stairs twelve, and the Chamber eighteen feet and an half, and under the princi∣pal bodie of the building, may be a Vault or Sellar, whereof the height must be the one half under the level of the Court, and the other half above it.