L'agreable entretien des ames
Subtitle: sur 168 tableaux souscris de prieres, pour mediter les sts. misteres et pour regler nos vies et mœurs sur celles de n[ot]re sauueur Iesus Christ et de Ste. Marie sa mere, en disant le chapelet du rozaire
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1648
Place of publication: France
Language: fre
Number of pages: 172
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Rosary; Catholic Church; Prayers and devotions
Other titles: Naissance, la chute, la réparasion et le salut de l'homme.; Naissance, la chutte, la reparasion et le salut de l'homme.; Naissance, la chvtte, la reparasion et le salvt de l'homme.
Notes: Engraved throughout.

Getty copy includes anonymous suite of 12 engraved plates, not part of work as published: La naissance, la chutte, la reparasion et le salut de l'homme. A Paris chez Pierre Mariette, rue St. Iacques a l'Esperance. Plates 1 & 12 mounted on front and back pastedowns. Plates 2-11 and first 2 leaves of L'agreable entretien pasted together back to back in pairs and bound in 2 groups at beginning & end of vol. An inserted MS note states that the inaccessible t.p. verso of the suite of prints bears dedication to the comtesse de Harcourt, signed A.B. (Abraham Bosse?). A 2nd note states that recto of 2nd leaf of L'agreable entretien (now pasted to verso of plate 7) bears the "Aprobation des docteurs" dated Nov. 1648. This has been taken as publication date.

Binding: goatskin. Boards tooled in gilt with 2 panels of double fillets, fleurons at corners of inner panel.

Signature on t.p. of Jean Pierre Lemembre, Notaire au Duché, rue de Vesle à Reims, 1757.