Rouget de Lisle (Joseph). Essays in verse and prose. ÀParis, - Lot 68

Rouget de Lisle (Joseph). Essays in verse and prose. ÀParis, de l'imprimerie de P.Didot l'aîné. AnVede la République. 1796. In-8, (4of which the last is blank)-160-(2white)pp. half tobacco calf, spine ribbed with flowers and red title-piece, gilt head; spine a little rubbed (old binding). First edition, including the text of the Marseillaise composed in 1792 (pp. 57-59). 4ff. copper engravings outside text. Including: a plate by Charles-Étienne Gaucher after Jean-Jacques-François LeBarbier, placed as a frontispiece to the new Adélaïde et Monville; and the score of a "Chant del'Hymne à l'Espérance", embossed on 3ff. out-of-text, including a title page and 3pp. of notated music. Large-margined copy.