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; with their just measures for the best advantage both of commodiousness, health, strength, and ornament. 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. /
Le Muet, Pierre,1591-1669.
Donaldson, John,Mason,18th century,inscriber.StEdNL
Baxter, James,18th century,inscriber.StEdNL
Smith, J,active 1695,inscriber.StEdNL
London: : Printed for Robert Pricke in White-cross street over against the Cross Keys, and at the Golden Lion at the corner of New Cheapside next Bethlem; where likewise you may have choice of other books of architecture, also maps. Copy-books, Italian, French, and Dutch prints,
M.DC.LXX. [1670]
Translation of: Manière de bastir pour touttes sortes de personnes.
Wing (2nd ed.)
ESTC
Manuscript inscription at the head of the title page "Boght att Hamilton Nov. 10th 1695 / by me J Smith".  On page 1 the name "James" is written twice in the right margin.  On the verso of the first leaf the name "John Donaldson" appears with a small sketch. On page 5 the name "James Baxter" with a small sketch is inscribed in the upper margin, while the name "John Donaldson" is written vertically down the right margin. On page 19 there are two heavily smugged words in the right-hand margin. On page 23 there are a series of equations done in brown ink in the lower margin. On the verso of the [2nd] leaf the name "John Donaldson" appear again. On the verso of the [3rd] leaf, at the top of the page, are a series of geometric sketches. The verso of leaf [4] has a sketch of a human, seemingly a study in proportions. The recto of leaf [10] has an illegible signature is inscribed in the lower right-hand corner. The recto of leaf [13] has a series of mathematical equations in the right margin. The recto of leaf [14] is inscribed with "John Donaldson Mason" in the lower left-hand corner and "John fond job[?]". The verso of leaf [36] has a square, drawn in ink, that is divided by straight lines into a geometric configuration of triangles.  On the the verso of leaf [47] are some lightly written words, possibly the name "John". On ther verso of leaf [48] are a few equations done in a light-colored ink. Finally on the verso of leaf [50] are a series of equations and the name "James" written a few times, one in the very center of the page.
Architecture, Domestic
Building