Watts's first catechism, in Esquimaux
Contributors: Peck, E. J. (Edmund James); Church of England
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1868
Place of publication: London
Language: eng; esk
Number of pages: 10
Subjects: Catechisms; Inuktitut language; Catéchismes; Inuktitut (Langue); Church of England
Notes: Lithographed. Text in Inuktitut syllabics; captions in English. Printed for the Church Missionary Society in 1868 or 1869--Cf. Banks, p. 243.

"Frederick Arnold, the printer of this book, was established at 86 Fleet Street, E.C., in 1868 and 1869 only ... He did not print in London during the 1870s. The book has been ascribed to Edmund J. Peck, who arrived in Rupert's Land as a CMS missionary in 1876 ... Peck used the Revised Church Missionary Society syllabarium among the Eskimos, but this book is printed with Evans finals instead of the half-size symbols of the revised syllabarium. Pilling also calls this the "first publication in the Eskimo language in which the syllabic characters were used." The item printed at the Moose Press in the winter of 1855-1856 predates it. Pilling also notes that the book was printed from engravings; it was lithographed"--Banks.

"Mansell and Pilling do not date this item which must be among the first pieces of Peck's translation work which was only begun in 1876"--Masinahikan.

References: Banks, J.M. Books in syllabic characters printed for the use of the Church Missionary Society among the Cree ... and the Eskimos of Little Whale River in the Diocese of Rupert's Land, 1852-1872 (Ph.D. thesis : Univ. of London, 1988); Evans, K. Masinahikan, no. 295; Pilling (Eskimo), p. 74.

Translated by E.J. Peck--Pilling.

Includes bibliographical references (Banks, J.M. Books in syllabic characters printed for the use of the Church Missionary Society among the Cree ... and the Eskimos of Little Whale River in the Diocese of Rupert's Land, 1852-1872 (Ph. D. thesis : Univ. of London, 1988) ; Evans, K. Masinahikan, no. 295; Pilling (Eskimo), pages 74).