Place and date from Fowler. The 32 plates are type A in the Fowler table of editions, 1563-[1800]. In the Fowler entry it is suggested that there may have been two earlier issues of the first XXXII leaves only, in 1562 and 1563?, so the present copy may be 3rd issue.

Engraved throughout on rectos only.

Leaf [I], title with port. of Vignola at a window in an architectural setting that incorporates the Farnese arms at head, as well as a number of devices including the arrow and target device of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese (1520-1589), to whom the work is dedicated -- Leaf II, papal and other permissions -- Leaf III, dedication to Cardinal Farnese and preface -- Leaves IIII-XXXII, the five orders -- Leaves [XXXIII-XXXVII], 4 doorways and a chimneypiece.

Fowler 351

Binding: decorated paper, block-printed in red. Quarter mottled goatskin. Spine sparsely tooled in gilt. Paper spine label on which have been written the author and date. Page edges sprinkled red.

Centered on front pastedown is Giovanni Muzio's bookplate by Giacomo Manzù, covered by a lineblock reproduction of the plate that omits both names. At foot of leaf II is inscription: prima Edizione del 1564. At head of back pastedown is inscription: 17. aprile 1815 - pag. £7-; beneath it is the inscription: prima Edizione del 1563. In upper right-hand corner of back pastedown is an old shelf mark.