8vo. 79pp, [1]. Contemporary sheep, tooled in gilt and blind, later rebacked preserving contemporary backstrip. Rubbed, scored, surface loss to boards. Near contemporary inked ownership inscription to FEP: 'Bartlet Goodrich / 4. Sep. 1803'.

The first edition of Church of England clergyman, and sometime master of the Royal Fort School in Bristol, Samuel Seyer's (1757-1831) first published work, a primer on the Christian faith and scripture, intended for a juvenile readership. The ten chapters are each appended by a series of questions to 'serve the purpose of a Catechism'. A second, and final edition appeared in 1800.

Bartlet Goodrich (1790-1855) was educated at Bristol, where his father John Bartlet was involved in the slave trade. He matriculated Oriel College, Oxford, in 1808, and University College in 1812. He became the first rector of Hardmead, and then vicar of Great Saling. This latter appointment was presumably the gift of his senior relative, also Bartlet Goodrich, who had purchased the grand estate of Saling House having emigrated from Virginia where the family were well-established.