The Christian Catechism (5th edition).

• imprint_number: 1816.094
• title: The Christian catechism, composed for the instruction of youth, in the knowledge of the Christian religion, together with an addition of morning and evening prayers, &. also, an explanation of sundry feasts, festivals and Sundays, &. By Paul Henkel, minister of gospel. Fifth edition, from the fourth enlarged edition.
• sequence_number: 94
• year: 1816
• place_issued: New Market
• issuing_press: Solomon Henkel
• author: Henkel, Paul (1754-1825).
• notes: English translation of Henkel's Der Christliche Catechismus (1811.086). That first edition of that translation also issued that year (1811.087), with a third edition (1813.091) issuing two years later, indicating that this title was originally an annually revised production, though no copy of a second edition or an 1812 issue is known extant; however, it was then three years before a fourth edition was published (1816.094), one quickly followed by a fifth (this item). Statement from fourth edition naming brothers Ambrose and Solomon Henkel as copyright holders is reprinted on page 2.
  
  
• Related Bios:
  • Rev. Paulus Henkel
  • Dr. Salomon Henkel

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