12mo. Two volumes bound as one. [4], lxiii, [1], 120, [4], 297, [11]. Contemporary gilt-tooled panelled black morocco, A.E.G. Rubbed, slight chipping to head and foot of spine, short crack to lower compartment, corners bumped, edges dusty. Marbled endpapers, recent book-label to FEP, front blank fly-leaf pasted to FFEP, later inked ownership inscriptions to verso of front blank fly-leaf and head of title, occasional light spotting.

The rare first edition in English, 'Newly Translated from the French' by
William Crathorne, of Claude Fleury's (1640-1723) Le catechisme historique (1683); an authoritative evaluation of Catholic Catechism and ecclesiastical doctrine.

ESTC records copies at just four locations in the British Isles (BL, NLS, Manchester, and Oxford); and a further four worldwide (California, SMU, St. John's College (Auckland), and Texas).