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 Division of the twelveth Place, which is a double Pavillion, having of breadth seventy feet, upon thirty six of depth,
THis Pavilion consisteth in a Chamber upon the left hand, a Stair-case, and Hall, ha∣ving the Prospect of three sides, a Portal behind the Stair-case, and Wardrobe joyning to the Chamber, the which Chamber shall have twenty two feet in square; the Stairs shall have in breadth twenty two feet upon nineteen of depth, in the midst of which is a Passage of six feet, the hall shall have twenty two feet of bredth, upon the whole depth of thirty six, the Portall shall have the same bredth with the stairs upon eighteen feet of depth, and the Wardrobe thirteen feet and an half of depth, upon the whole bredth of the Chamber.
The second and third story shall be like to the first, except that over the Hall, there shall be made a Wardrobe of the same depth with that below, and above the Portall shall be made Chambers.
For the heights, the floor of the body of the Building, shall be raised three feet above the level of the ground without, to which they shall ascend by six steps, as well before as behinde: and shall have from the floor to under the Joysts fourteen feet, and containing the Joysts and Plancher fourteen feet nine inches, to the which they shall ascend by thirty steps, of five inches eleven parts each of them.
The second story shall have thirteen feet nine inches, containing the thickness of the Joysts and Plan∣cher, to the which they shall ascend by the like quantitie of thirty steps, of five inches and an half each of them.
The third story shall have twelve feet under the Joysts.