A PROTESTANT HISTORICAL CATECHISM; Being a Concise View of the Commencement and Decline of Christianity; with the Rise and Establishment of the Reformation, under Martin Luther, and His Coadjutors, in Several Countries of Europe.

- 16mo. 5-3/4 inches high by 3-5/8 inches wide. Printed gray boards titled and decorated in black on the front cover with an advertisement for the author's book "Thuanus" on the rear cover. The rubbed and stained covers are detached and the spine is lacking. 106 & [2] pages. There is some very minor occasional foxing and a chip to the top edge of one leaf. RARE. WorldCat locates only 1 copy, that in the Styberg Library in Evanston, Illinois."This work, though diminutive in size, is one, before which many ponderous quartos, and overgrown folios, might justly hide their unwieldy heads. In the margins of many of his pages, the author has quoted his authorities, unless he refers to facts, the truth of which is universally acknowledged. That he espouses the Protestant cause, he openly avows, and glories in having an opportunity of lifting his voice in favor of the doctrines which reformation inculcates." - [Quoted from a review in "The Imperial magazine, or, Compendium of religious, moral, & philosophical knowledge", volume 4, 1822].A disciple of John Wesley, the author Josiah Henry Walker (1777-1843) was the Wesleyan preacher in Walsingham, England. …