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 eleventh Place, according to the precedent Division.

THe second storie of the body of the building on the front, consisteth in a Chamber upon the first stable, a stair-case, and two other chambers; the first must have eighteen feet in bredth, the second and third twentie feet in square. Next to the first Chamber is a Gallerie, having sixty four feet of depth upon eighteen of bredth.

The second story of the principal body of the building consisteth in a Closet and a Cham∣ber over the Hall, a stair-case, and another chamber. The Closet shall have sixteen Feet and an half of bredth, upon the whole depth of twenty two feet: The Chamber shall have twenty two Feet in square, and the other Chamber eighteen feet and an half of bredth.