[Rarebooks] FS: First Appearance of "The Star-Spangled Banner, " 1814, price reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced to $1000 NET

KEY, Francis Scott. The Defence of Fort McHenry" ["The Star-Spangled 
Banner"] in THE ANALECTIC MAGAZINE (November, 1814). Philadelphia: Moses 
Thomas, 1814. First Edition. Contemporary tree calf leather with a 
gilt-lettered red morocco spine label; 524 pages. Illustrated with an 
engraved title page and several engraved portraits. The first appearance 
of "The Star Spangled Banner," here titled "Defence of Fort McHenry," in 
any publication other than a few newspaper appearances. It would not 
become our national anthem until 1931. Library bookplate on front 
pastedown and pocket on rear pastedown as well as a few discreet stamps. 
Mostly light and scattered foxing. Front joint split but cover still 
held strongly by the cords. Very Good.

"The Star-Spangled Banner" was recognized for official use by the Navy 
in 1889 and the President in 1916, and was made the national anthem by a 
congressional resolution on 3 March 1931. Although the song has four 
stanzas, only the first is commonly sung today, with the fourth ("O! 
thus be it ever when free men shall stand...") added on more formal 
occasions. The fourth stanza includes the line "And this be our motto: 
In God is our Trust." The United States adopted "In God We Trust" as its 
national motto in 1956. (#015743) $1,500.00

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