small octavo 14 by 9 cms ( 5.5 by 3.5 inches) A rare work published by William Pinnock in his Pinnock's Catechism series. Text of 72 pages with a frontispiece portrait of Maj J Rennell and a vignette title page which is dated 1823. This copy is described as the forty-second edition but there are no copies of any other edition currently on line. The work is complete and very clean. It lacks the original printed paper wrappers but the book block is intact and sound, frontispiece is beginning to come loose.