
Aikin, The Christian Minstrel, Shaped Note, complete copy
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. Philadelphia &c.: T. K. Collins, Jr. &c., 1856. Eighty-Second Edition. [10351] Leather spine with printed paper over card, front board nearly detached, back joint cracked and holding, covers scuffed & soiled. Oblong 15 x 25 cm (6 x 9 3/4 inches), lacks the front free end papers. Large (6 x 8 1/4 inches) chromolithograph advert card for Cottage Shirting, Newburyport, Mass., pasted inside front. Small bookseller's ticket, "Murray & Stoek, Cheap Book Store, Kramph's Building's [sic], Lancaster" also on front paste-down. 416 pp., complete text. Text has foxing but is otherwise good with no missing or torn leaves. Good. Hardcover. Seven-note shape-note system. Jesse Bowman Aikin (1808–1900), b. Chester Co., PA, a farmer by trad