Song of the Soldiers
HARDY, Thomas
'Reprinted by permission' [1915 Issue.]
1915 ISSUE IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
Published: [E. Williams] Hove, 1915
Stock code: 51780
Price: £40.00
8pp. 8vo., 1915 Issue, text mildly browned as usual; original printed wrappers, sewed as issued,a very good, bright, crisp copy.
Hardy's well-known, if sombre, poem was first published in 'The Times' on 9 September 1914. Purdy states that Mrs. Hardy wrote to Williams, an antiquarian bookseller, confirming that Hardy had no objection to the piece being reprinted and it was accordingly first reissued as a 4pp leaflet on 16th September 1914. The venture was evidently successful, for in 1915 Williams reissued the present reset version as an 8pp pamphlet sewn in brown card wrappers. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. See Purdy, pp.157-8.