The Church, the Falling Away, and the Restoration (Gospel Advocate Classics)

The Church, the Falling Away, and the Restoration by J. W. Shepherd is an excellent overview of the three subjects in the title. That is this book discusses briefly and largely accurately the doctrines of what the Church should be, how the Church fell away afterwards, and then the attempt at restoring the New Testament church, which is a continuous process. Although, Shepherd focuses on the attempts in the late 1790's to mid 1800's.