[Rarebooks] FS: First Publication of "The Star Spangled Banner"

[Charles Agvent]

KEY, Francis Scott. DEFENCE OF FORT M'HENRY ["The Star-Spangled Banner"] 
in THE ANALECTIC MAGAZINE (November, 1814). Philadelphia: Moses Thomas, 
1814. First Edition. Contemporary half red morocco leather and marbled 
boards with a gilt-lettered spine; iv, 524 pages. Illustrated with an 
engraved title page and 5 engraved portraits of Lord Byron, Joel Barlow, 
General Winfield Scott, Capt. David Porter, and General Zebulon Pike. 
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. With 
the ownership signature of Leslie Combs on the front pastedown. Combs 
was a lawyer and politician from Kentucky who served under William Henry 
Harrison and Green Clay during the War of 1812 and who was captured in 
1813. He later served as Speaker of the House in the Kentucky House of 
Representatives. His eldest son was Leslie Combs II, Lexington horse 
breeder and diplomat who was Minister to Guatemala, Honduras, and Peru 
under the administration of Theodore Roosevelt. Text browned and foxed 
throughout; light wear to binding. 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. (#020757)        $1,500

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