Handt-boeck der Catholijcken
By: om godtvruchtelijck te bidden by een vergaedert door den E. V. Peeter Canisius des Broederschaps Jesu, doctoor in der Godtheydt.
Contributors: Moretus, Jan, 1543-1610 printer.; Plantijnsche Drukkerij.
Publisher: inde Plantijnsche Druckerije by Jan Mourentorf
Published: 1597
Place of publication: T'Antwerpen
Language: dut
Number of pages: 374
Subjects: Catholic Church -- Prayer-books and devotions -- Dutch -- Early works to 1800.
Work titles: Manuale Catholicorum.
Notes: Collation: 12mo: A-Q¹□□² [$6 (-A1) signed]; 192 leaves: p. [1] [blank] 3-374, [8] [2 blank] (misprinting 77 as 7, 103 as 10, 282 as 82, 361 as 461).

"Met gratie ende priuilegie."

Jesuit device on t.p.; initials; head- and tail-pieces.

Title, preface and calendar in red and black; blank pages have a printed frame.

"Work preceded by a suite of 42 devotional and emblematic engravings, many attributed to Hieronymus or Anton Wierix, all heightened with gold; an engraving on the title and 21 engravings in the text, all but one heightened in gold." -- Quaritch.

Not in Backer-Sommervogel.

Bernard Quaritch (Firm), purchase

Burns Library copy: contemporary calf, covers elaborately gilt with a large arabesque panel, all edges gilt; joints cracked; two of the spine compartments torn with loss; in green box