London, J. Bland at his Music Warehouse No. 45 Holborn, [1792].
Marche des Marseillois, Chantée sur differans Theatres à Paris. The Marseilles March, Sung by the Marseillois going to Battle, by General Kellerman’s Army, instead of Te Deum, as Ordered by the National Convention, & at the Different Theaters in Paris. Theme Catalogue of French Songs.
Rare first edition, first issue, of the first English-language version of “La Marseillaise,” published in London by the music-seller John Bland (active 1776-c.1794) barely six months after the famous French march was first composed (on a single night in April of 1792) and some three years before the song was..... More