In verse.

Added engraved t.p. with title: Houwelick, dat is, het gansch beleyt des echten-staets : afgedeylt in ses hooft-stucken, te weten, maeght, vrijster, bruyt, vrouwe, moeder, weduwe.

Consists of 7 pts., signed and paged separately. Pts. 3-6 comprise the "Christelick huys-wijf" with special t.p. on leaf ℗øA1r. Pt. 7 consists of excerpts from other writers on marriage, chiefly French and Latin.

Engraved ill. after Adriaen Pietersz. van de Venne by Theodor Matham, Adriaan Matham, Pieter Serwouters, Jan Verstraelen, Daniel van den Bremden. Woodcut printer's devices, head-pieces (some with city views: Dordrecht, The Hague, Middelberg), tail-pieces, factotum initials.

Signatures: pi℗ø *́þ 2℗ø 3-4́þ A-F́þ 2A-2H́þ 2I℗ø, ℗øpíþ(-pi4) -3́þ A-Íþ, ℗đpi℗ø -2́þ 2A-2Źþ 2a-2ḱþ 2l℗ø, ́þpi℗ø ́þ 2℗ø 3Áþ 3B/3Ćþ 3D-3Íþ, ́æpi℗ø -2́þ 4A-4Íþ 4K℗ø a-h́þ. Leaves of 3B/3Ćþ signed twice: Bbb Ccc ... Bbbiiij Ccciiij, apparently reflecting the revision of an earlier issue.

Paging: [32], 38 p.; [10], 67, [1] p.; [16], 35 leaves; [11], 133 leaves; [16], 24, 72 [i.e. 64] p.; [20], 76 p.; 39, [25] p. The 9th through 16th p. of the 12th group (gathering 3B/3Ćþ) bear 2 nos. each: 9.10 ... 23.24.

Includes bibliographical references (side notes), indexes and errata.