Item Detail
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Willis & Co. Royal Musical Library
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1320
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Stevenson, John
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Her Majesty's Authorized Edition of God Save the Queen with an accompaniment. . .
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Sm. Folio
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sm. folio (somewhat time-stained)
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London
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1837
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First Edition
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5:00 PM
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33 x 24.5 cm.
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784.71942 St48h 1837
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National Anthem. Lithograph portrait. First edition of this version, published on her accession. The main anthem is virtually as we know it today, but there is an additional version by a L. L. Ternan (?) which fortunately has not survived. It ends: "Ne'er may the breath of foes/Ruffle the Royal Rose/Pride of our land that blows/God Save the Queen!"