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[4], xii, [5]-456 pp. (8vo) 17.1x11 cm (6¾x4¼”), green cloth, all edges stained red.

The Catholic catechism, with prayers, psalms, and hymns rendered entirely in Micmac ideograms.  This is a facsimile reprint of the original edition published in Vienna in 1866.  However, this is the first in which English language front matter has been added, and the preface and chapter headings are printed in English and French.  

The characters were invented by missionary Father Christian Leclercq in the mid-17th century, and improved upon by Abbe Pierre Maillard.  This book was the result of some ten years of work by the Rev. Christian Kauder among the Micmac peoples of Nova Scotia and eastern Canada.  5703 types were cut and cast for the book, and the characters each represent words rather than sounds.  Pilling says of the first edition, "So far as I know, these are the only books printed in these characters," and the preface to this book, written in 1921, makes the same claim