Latin text printed in double columns, the in-text etchings of coats of arms blazoned in French in the margins.

Engraved title by Matthaus Greuter after Francesco Romanelli. Full-page engraved arms of Taddeo Barberini, Prefect of Rome, to whom the work is dedicated. Head- and tail-pieces, initials.

Signatures: a⁴(-a2) b⁴ A-4S⁴ 4T⁸.

Includes index, errata, and glossary of Latin heraldic terms giving the Italian equivalents.

Copy 1 lacks plate with Barberini arms.

Binding, c. 1: old calfskin. Backstrip wanting. Edges sprinkled red. Copy 2: old sprinkled goatskin. Edges of boards and spine tooled in gilt, author & title on spine label in gilt. Page edges red.

Copy 1 has pencilled signature of E.K. Waterhouse. Copy 2 has bookplate with arms of Uggla (perhaps Carl Hillebranson Uggla, 1725-1803, writer on heraldry).