(WAR OF 1812) Volume IV of the Analectic Magazine featuring

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"O! SAY CAN YOU SEE, BY THE DAWN'S EARLY LIGHT" (WAR OF 1812.) Volume IV of the Analectic Magazine, featuring the Defence of Fort M'Henry. Engraved collective title, 5 other plates. iv, 524 pages. 8vo, contemporary 1/2 calf, minor wear; moderate foxing. Philadelphia, July-December 1814

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The first magazine appearance of the words to Francis Scott Key's "Star-Spangled Banner," here published anonymously in the November issue on pages 433-4 under the title "Defence of Fort M'Henry." An introduction explains the circumstances under which it was written, adding that "these lines have already been published in several of our newspapers; they may still, however, be new to many of our readers. Besides, we think that their merit entitles them to preserbvation in some more permanent form than the columns of a daily paper." BAL 11081G; Filby, Star-Spangled Books B18; Streeter sale II:1070.