CATHOLIC SECRET PRESS. – [Thomas WRIGHT.] The Disposition or Garnishmente of the Soule to receive worthily the blessed sacrament devyded into three discourses, 1 Preparation. 2 Presentation before Christ. 3 Enterteinment. Antwerp [but England:] Joachim Trognaesius [but secretly printed], 1596. 8vo (148 x 91mm.) Title and text with ruled borders, leaf D3 blank but for ruled borders and signature. (Lower margin loss to title and to lower margins of A2-A5, also to C2, D2-M1 with damp-staining, M8 loosened, lacking last blank Y4, marginal losses to last three leaves and ink drawing and annotation to last leaves.) Contemporary vellum (some loss to spine, stained, dust-soiled). Provenance: William Squire (ink inscribed verso last leaf); Elizabeth Russell (ink name inscribed verso last leaf). Note: rare. The additional signature y (‘A Conclusion, Conteining an Admonition..’) is not in this copy. Thomas Wright was a Jesuit priest and recusant who had studied at the English College in Rome. He also wrote a work ‘The Passions of the Minde’, published in 1601, which is considered an early work on emotions and moral development. [STC 26038.8].