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A Compilation of the litanies and vespers hymns and anthems as they are sung in the Catholic Church adapted to the voice or organ / By Iohn Aitken[.].
Van Pelt - Microtext Microfiche 821 no. 20186
Mixed Availability
- Format:
- Microformat
- Series:
- Early American imprints. First series ; no. 20186.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Catholic Church--Hymns.
- Catholic Church.
- Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions.
- Genre:
- Hymns.
- Prayers and devotions.
- Hymnals.
- Prayers.
- Devotional literature.
- Physical Description:
- 7 unnumbered pages, 136 pages, 1 unnumbered page : music ; 27 cm (4to)
- 4x6 in.
- monochrome
- service copy
- negative
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia. : [Published by John Aitken], 1787 [that is, 1788]
- Notes:
- The first collection of Catholic church music published in America. For a discussion of this work, see: Grimes, Robert R. "John Aitken and Catholic Music in Federal Philadelphia" in American music, 16:3 (1998): 289-310.
- All pages engraved except table of contents, at the top of which is the certificate of registration, describing the book in quarto and signed by James Biddle, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County, April 8th, 1788.
- John Aitken worked as a printer, music publisher, silversmith and bookseller in Philadelphia, 1784-1824. Evans, who locates no copy and gives no collation, presumably took his description from a printed title page or an advertisement. He supplies the imprint: Philadelphia: Printed for Thomas Dobson, in Second Street, between Market and Chestnut Streets, 1787. Another edition, which varies slightly in title and which is engraved in the same design, has imprint: Philadelphia, Printed and sold by John Aitken 1791.
- Odd numbered pages on versos.
- Leaf tipped in after title is a recommendation printed in English and German, signed by Rev. John Carroll and three others, and dated November 28, 1787.
- Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 20186).
- Cited in:
- Evans 20186
- Parsons, W. Catholic Americana, 62
- OCLC:
- 55830984
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