The chorister's companion
Subtitle: containing, besides the necessary rules of psalmody, a choice and valuable collection of psalm-tunes, hymns and anthems, from the most celebrated ancient and modern authors ; together with several tunes never before published
Contributors: Brown, William, former owner, autographer; Jocelin, Simeon, bookseller, publisher; Doolitle, Amos, 1754-1832, engraver
Edition: The second edition, corrected and englarged.
Publisher: Published and sold by Simeon Jocelin
Published: 1788
Place of publication: New-Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 120
Subjects: English Hymns; Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices), Unaccompanied
Notes: For chorus (SATB).

Also available on microfilm in the Boston Public Library Music Department.

In English.

Catalogued 20151102 bhealy

Boston Public Library (Allen A. Brown Collection) copy bound in brown leather over boards. Printed on laid papers with vertical chainlines and horizontal wire lines. Copy includes book label of the Boston Public Library on front pastedown, along with a hand-colored ex libris (book plate) of unidentified provenance featuring a man standing next to a woman (seated underneath a tree) while playing the lute, with a two-line epigram beneath. Front flyleaf includes several markings, including a former owner's autograph in black ink script. Rear pastedown includes book plate of the Boston Public Library. Title page includes an inserted leaf, measuring 12 x 7 cm, detailing the work in question and the contribution of Amos Doolitle. Front cover detached from binding.