Joseph ROUGET de LISLE. - Lot 136

Joseph ROUGET de LISLE. Joseph ROUGET de LISLE. Essays in verse and prose. Paris, Didot l'Ainé, 1796, in-8 bound in full later basane racinée, smooth spine decorated, title page. From the Bibliothèque F. Grouvel (gilt on the front cover). Rare first edition. La Marseillaise appears in its true original edition, having been pre-published in L'Almanach des Muses in 1793, under the title "Le Chant des Combats, vulgairement L'Hymne des Marseillois. Aux Mânes de Sylvain Bailly, premier maire de Paris". The Exemplaire also contains a prose tale "Adélaïde et Monville, Anecdote" illustrated with a hors-texte engraving by Charles-Etienne Gaucher after Jean-Jacques Le Barbier, and at the end of the volume 4 pages of score engraved by Richomme, concerning the Chant de l'Hymne à l'Espérance. Bound with "Les Foiblesses d'une jolie femme, ou Mémoires de Madame de Vilfranc, écrits par elle-même", by NOUGARET, published anonymously in two parts in London in 1786.