Aikin. The Christian Minstrel, 1855 7 note shape system, complete text

Aikin, J. B. The Christian Minstrel: A New System of Musical Notation; with a collection of Psalm Tunes, Anthems, and Chants, selected from the Most Popular Works in Europe and America. Designed for the use of Churches, Singing-Schools, and Societies. Cincinnati & Philadelphia: Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co. | T. K. Collins, Jr., 1855. [8733] Leather spine with printed paper over card, covers quite worn with some loss of paper, firmly attached. Oblong 15 cm (6 x 9 3/4 inches), several names, poems, etc. on end papers, ffp clipped with loss at top 1 inch. 416 pp., complete text, several signatures pulled at center, 2 detached leaves. Good. Hardcover. Seven-shape shape-note system.Jesse Bowman Aikin (1808–1900), b. Chester Co., PA, a farmer by trade and a member of the Church of the Brethren. He became a "singing master" and was the first person to produce a successful song book in the seven-shape note system, entitled The Christian Minstrel. The book went through as many as 171 edi