A Compilation of the litanies and vespers hymns and anthems as they are sung in the Catholic Church adapted to the voice or organ - Carroll, John 1735-1815 ([Published by John Aitken], 1787)
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. - Evans, 20186. - 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. - 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. - Odd numbered pages on versos. - Parsons, W. Catholic Americana, 62. - 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