Exercice spirituel ou est enseigné au Chresteen la manière d'employer le iour au service de Dieu.
Pierre Rocolet
Paris, 1658
 
12 mo. (135 x 83 mm.) xvi, 276, 360, 8 pp. Fifteen contemporarily hand-colored plates. Woodcut initials, head and tailpieces. Contemporary calf beautifully decorated in pointillé style. Covers well-worn with a few old repairs along the edges, centers, and front hinge. Traces of clasps, portrait of Mary Magdalene with a repaired tear at the lower margin. Spine bowed from devoted use. Pages largely clean. Overall, a Good solid copy of a lovely book.
 
The book opens with two dedications to Madeleine Fabry, wife of Chancellor Pierre Séguier - one by Jean Ballesdens, Séguier’s secretary and a great bibliophile, and the other by the printer Pierre Rocolet. Two of the fifteen plates bear the name of Balthasar Moncornet, a prolific Parisian painter, engraver, and print dealer, best known for his portraits of the nobility of the time. Christian maxims, spiritual exercises, the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary, litanies, psalms, and prayers follow. 
The 15 plates placed throughout comprise: 
 
- the adolescent Jesus
- an altar where the dedicatee Madame la Chanceliere is kneeling
- Moses with the Ten Commandments
- Mary with tablets of Six Church Commandments
- St. Hyacinth
- Mary Magdalene
- Saint Peter
- St. Simon receiving the Scapular from Mary 
- young Jesus carrying the instruments of the Passion
- the Virgin Mary
- Mary nursing Jesus and the coat of arms of the Chancelière
- Mary with baby Jesus and St. John
- young Jesus with the cross-bearing orb and instruments of the Passion
- the Blessed Sacrament flanked by two angels
- King David