Architecture. LAZZARI. Compendio delle più interessanti regole di architettura teorico-pratiche.

Small folio; 200x285 mm; Contemporary quarter leather binding and marbled boards, gilt rules and titles on the spine; pp. 67, [5]; 4 folded copper engraved plates; Typographic mark on the title page with Picotti's initials. Fine condition.

First illustrated edition. The work, which looks like a regular and complete course in architecture, is divided into three parts, "which undoubtedly constitute the fundamental foundations of any well-ordered building": Beauty, Comfort, Solidity. The plates outside the text are engraved by A. Nani on drawings by F. Viola. Francesco Lazzari, 1791-1871, studied architecture at the Venice Academy under the guidance of Giannantonio Selva, of whom he was a favorite student. In 1810 and 1812 he obtained the first prize in architectural composition, in 1813 the first prize in ornamentation. Immediately afterwards he began to draw some tables for the most conspicuous Fabbriche in Venice, a work around which Selva worked until his death. Lazzari took the place of the master and edited the composition of the grandiose undertaking until the expanded publication of 1838-40. On Selva's death in 1819, he succeeded him to the chair of architecture.