Antwerp, Christoph Plantin, 1569; five volumes bound in three as normal; mainly large 8vo, but some signatures 4to; 200 x 270mm by around 60mm thick each volume. Collation: Vol 1 pti pp [xxxii], 374, [i], Vol 1 ptii [xii], 376; Vol 2 [xv], 551, [i], [219]*; Vol 3 [xvi], 356, 279, [i]; (* I'm aware that the collation given for the Campion copy in the Senate House Library at the University of London shows this section as [221]p but it may be that the Senate House copy includes a final blank leaf not counted in our copy); some page numbering errors including Vol 1 p155 noted as 154, Vol 2 p201 noted as 2 1; Vol 3, p279 at end noted as 289. Early bindings of half sheep with roan backs and later red calf labels gilt, raised bands; bindings now in poor condition, the sides and edges heavily scuffed and the backs with much loss and general damage; the binding of the contents, though somewhat fragile is, however, generally firm with the exception that in Vol 2 some broken cords have made signature c of the later part loose (eight leaves) and that in part of Vol 3 six of the seven cords have broken at one point leaving signatures g to k (32 leaves) loose; being 16th century paper the contents remain in good condition being substantially clean and unmarked throughout although with the inevitable small patches of old damp marks here and there and with occasional other small dust or other marks. Disposition of contents: Vol 1 - Title page to the whole work, Dedication and other matters, Index to Part I, Part I (119 Qq), Colophon (dated 17 December 1567), Title page to Part II, Index to Part II, Part II First Part (114 Qq); Vol II - Title page to Part II Second Part, Index to Part II Second Part, Part II Second Part (189Qq), five various Indexes; Vol III - Title page to Part II, Part III (90 Qq), Supplement (99 Qq), Censura et Approbatio, Colophon (dated 19 September 1567). Occasional underlinings of passages by a very early hand. Holograph ownership or other notes on all title pages including "Fratr Johannis, "Fr Coelestini Vanderstucken 1749", "M. Th[?] Timmermans".