Fabbriche // e // Disegni // di // Giacomo Quarenghi // Architetto // di S. M. L'Imperatore di Russia // Cavaliere di Malta e di S. Waldimiro // Illustrate // Dal Cav. Giulio // suo Figlio. // MILANO // PRESSO PAOLO ANTONIO TOSI .. MDCCCXXI.

Milano: : Presso Paolo Antonio Tosi, , c.1821; . Overall a near-fine copy with plates and text crisp and clean. . Edition: First Edition [published posthumously] , Binding: Contemporary half vellum with brown marbled boards; gilt lettered title on gilt bordered burgundy morocco label on flat spine; endpapers renewed; edges blue., Notes: Text in Italian. Giacomo Quarenghi (1744–1817) was the foremost and most prolific practitioner of neoclassical architecture in Imperial Russia, particularly in Saint Petersburg. He brought into vogue an original monumental style, of Palladian inspiration, which was a reference for many architects who worked in Russia. He has been described as "the last of the great architects of Italy".
Quarenghi's first important commission in Russia was the English Palace in Peterhof, a magnificent rectangular edifice with a Corinthian portico. ...Appointed to the post of Catherine II's court architect, Quarenghi went on to produce a prodigious number of designs for the Empress, her successors and members of her court: houses, summerhouses, bridges, theatres, hospices, a market, a bank building, interior decorations and garden designs. His projects were put into execution as far away from the capital as Novhorod-Siverskyi, Ukraine where a cathedral was constructed to his designs.
In Moscow, he was responsible for the reconstruction of medieval Red Square in a fashionable neo-Palladian mode. Count Nicholas Sheremetev engaged him to devise a theatre hall in the Ostankino Palace and a semicircular colonnade for the Sheremetev Hospital. Most of Quarenghi's designs intended for Moscow were subsequently realized with significant modifications by other architects, as was the case with Gostiny Dvor (1789–1805), Catherine Palace (1782–87), and Sloboda Palace (1790–94).
Millard states: ...he made significant contributions to the architectural identity of St. Petersburg, the last of the great European capitals to be founded (in 1703 by Peter the Great), to neoclassical taste. ...Quarenghi also designed projects for buildings in Moscow...
, Size: folio(450x314mm)., Illustration: Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece portrait of Quarenghi and fifty-nine (59) full- page engraved plates. A wide margin detailed text description included for each plate; many of the engravings by I.I. Kolpakov after Quarenghi's original architectural designs., References: BAL RIBA 2677; Berlin Katalog, 2776; Millard: Italian & Spanish, 108., Pages: Ff: bl., frontis portrait, title, printer's note on verso, dedication, pp.6-46, plus 50 ff with full-page engraved plates, bl. , Category: Book Art, Architecture & Design; Book Europe Italy; Book Russia;