Major Spanish destreza work by Don Luis Pacheco de Narvaez. Gelli emphasizes the engraved title frame, the portrait, the woodcut figures, and the work's central place in the polemical development of the Spanish school after Carranza. Castle gives fuller copy detail for the 1599-1600 Pacheco de Narvaez Libro de las grandezas de la espada, including printer, bookseller, portrait, and 155 diagrams. Thimm likewise preserves the long title-page form for the same Madrid 1599-1600 witness.
Vigeant 1882 treats the 1600 Libro de las Grandezas as one of the major Spanish witnesses, describing its portrait, woodcut apparatus, and the variation between surviving copies. He judges Pacheco's success in Spain comparable to that of Saint-Didier in France and Agrippa in Italy.