Leo I (Pope) Opera, quae quidem extant, omnia, edited by Petrus Canisius, first Canisius edition, collation: *⁶ **⁴ A-N⁶ O P⁴ Q-Z⁶ AA-DD⁶ EE FF⁴ GG⁶, title with woodcut printer's device, large and smaller woodcut historiated and decorative initials, P4 blank, sig. K bound after sig. L, first and last few ff. mounted on stubs, O1 small piece torn from upper blank corner (loosely inserted), short worm trace to lower inner gutters towards end, a few marginal repairs, water-stained, occasional spotting, lightly browned, later calf, spine in compartments and with modern red leather label, piece from leather of lower cover, spine and corners repaired, upper joint starting, but holding firm, rubbed and marked, folio (297 x 195mm.), Cologne, Melchior von Neuss, 1546.

⁂ Scarce first Canisius edition of the works, which includes a life of the author. Canisius (1521-1597) was a key figure in the restoration of the Catholic Church in Germany after the Protestant Reformation.

Provenance: David du Rieu, 1670 (ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper); a few ink inscriptions, ink stamps or small labels of various seminaries to front endpapers and title.

Literature: VD16 L 1201.