This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 edition. Excerpt: ... become unwieldy and out of proportion. A proposition was also made to arrange the stars of the Union into a single star, and do. away with the halo as sanctioned by the adoption of 1794. The resolution of 1818 was as follows: --"Be it enacted, itc., That from and after the fourth day of July next, the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 edition. Excerpt: ... become unwieldy and out of proportion. A proposition was also made to arrange the stars of the Union into a single star, and do. away with the halo as sanctioned by the adoption of 1794. The resolution of 1818 was as follows: --"Be it enacted, itc., That from and after the fourth day of July next, the flag cf the United States be Thirteen horizontal stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be twenty stars, white, in a blue space. "And that, on the adiuission of a new State into the Union, one star be added to the union of the flag; and that such addition shall take effect on the fourth day of July next succeeding such admission." Approved, April 4,1818. The union of the United States' flag at present contains thirty-one stars. t Francis S. Key is a native of Baltimore. This song is supposed to have bera "itten by a prisoner onboard the British fleet, on the morning after the unsucfal bombardment of Fort McHenry. AMERICA TO GREAT BRITAIN. 63 On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses? Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam; Its full glory reflected now shines on the stream; "Tis the star-spangled banner, O! long may it wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. And where is the band who so vauntingly swore, 'Mid the havoc of war and the battle's confusion, A home and a country they'd leave us no more? Their blood hath washed out their foul footsteps' pollution; No refuge can save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave, And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave...
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Add this copy of The Book of American Songs: With Notes, Biographical to cart. $425.00, very good condition, Sold by Old Book Shop of Bordentown rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Bordentown, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1857 by Ward and Lock.
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Very Good. Very scarce. First edition, (OCLC locates only 3 copies in book form) 24mo in floral paper covered boards over three quarter dark brown cloth. 128 pp. with topical index. A tight example, interior clean and bright; we suspect the floral paper on the boards is somewhat later than the bookissuance; there is rubbing and shallow edgewear to the spine strip. The second front black has some chipping along its edge. In his introductory remaks, the editor notes that the American colonies in the early days were largely dependent on Great Britain for their popular music (he ponders that if ". the Puritans pf Plymouth and Quakers of Pennsylvania sung...we can readity imagine that their vocalism was rather restricted...". He notes that Americans looked to the mothjer country for their popular songs but notes that at the present day, American song traveled to Great Britain and ". the ear is assailed with those terrible concoctions of vulgarity and commonplace tune...it is fair to imagine the mother country had condescended to borrow from the sone{and} with rare exceptions, the adopted material is anything but creditable to John Bull's taste of musical propriety." This collection, he hopes, "will prove to the English reader that American writers can achieve something superior to "Old Dog Tray" and other feeble stupidities...". The book is arranged by general subject matter: "Songs of Affection", "Pastural and Rural", "Military andPatriotic' (it contains "The Star Spangled Banner"), "Sea Songs" and "Miscellaneous".
