Small 4to (206 x 145 mm). Engraved portrait; 9 engraved plates. (Staining to lower corner of approximately half of the leaves.) Contemporary vellum (repairs to corners and edges, soiling). Provenance: Francesco Berzudo[?] (signature, 1638); Marco Antonio Pasquali (signature, 1653); a few early marginal annotations. 

Second edition, preceded by the first edition Lo Schermo which was published in 1575.  "According to the preface, the Viggiani's dying wish to his brother was that his treatise not be published for at least fifteen years. His brother complied, and though the text was completed in 1551, the presentation manuscript wasn't presented to Maximilian II (1527-1576) until 1567. The first published edition was released in 1575, printed in Venice, Italy" (Wiktenauer). Cockle 749 note; Pardoel 117; Thimm p.326.