Pole (Reginald, Cardinal) De summo pontifice Christi in terris vicario, eiusque officio & potestate, first edition, collation: *⁸ A-T⁸ V⁴, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut historiated initials and tail-piece, errata to final verso, title with library ink stamps and small paper labels at foot (the latter obscuring majority of final line of imprint), some worming to inner margins (mostly at beginning and end, including title), final f. with small blue ink numbers in upper margin and couple of very small wormholes within text with loss of a couple of letters (without loss of sense), occasional spotting, lightly browned, contemporary limp vellum, early ink manuscript initials 'VTR' within circles to upper cover, spine soiled, with small hole and large printed library label, lacking ties, 8vo (141 x 97mm.), Louvain, John Fowler, 1569.

⁂ Rare copy at auction of the first edition of this treatise on the office of the papacy, written by the last Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury. It was published after his death in 1558. John Fowler (1537-1578), English Catholic scholar and printer at Louvain and Douai.

Literature: Adams P1746.