CHILDREN’S INSTRUCTION FOR THE GLORY AND PRAISE OF GOD
(Children’s Prayer Book) CATECHISMUS, ODER, KURZER UNTERRICHT CHRISTLICHER LEHRE: FUR DIE ANGEHENDE JUGEND IN DER CHURFURSTICHEN PFALZ END ANDERN REFORMIRTEN ORTEN ZU GEBRAUCHEN: SAMT DER HAUS+TAFEL, MIT UND OHNE BIBLISCHEN SPRUCH=BUCHLEIN. ALLES ZUR EHRE UND LOB GOTTES. Germantaun: Gedruckt bey M. Billmeyer, 1819.
A book of instructions for children in the principles of the German Reformed Church, with a leaf containing multiplication tables from one to 1,000.
Michael Billmeyer, who began his printing career in 1787, succeeded the Saurs as the main printer in Germantown. He continued to publish books, pamphlets, and broadsides until 1830. He was noted for his printing of religious publications for Mennonites and the German Reformed Church.
Contemporary leather spine over marbled paper boards, scuffed with loss of marbled paper, text block detached from binding but secure.
OCLC cites one copy at the German Society of Pennsylvania. Arndt, German Language Printing, 2342.