Various - Songs & Sonnets for England in War Time - First Edition

VARIOUS, [ADCOCK, A. St. John, ARCHER, William, BARNES, R. Gorell, BEGBIE, Harold, BINYON, Laurence, BUCKLEY, Reginald R., BUSSY, Philip, CANNAN, Gilbert, CHESTERTON, Cecil, CHESTERTON, G. K., COLVIN, Ian, COURTNEY, W. L., COUTTS, Francis, FREEMAN, R. M., FORSTER, R. H., GILL, Anthony Kirby, GOAD, Harold E., HARDY, Thomas, HEWLETT, Maurice, HUTCHINSON, W. M. L., JONES, Herbert, JOURDAIN, M., KERNAHAN, Coulson, KIPLING, Rudyard, LETTS, W. M., MCCARTY, Justin Huntly, MUNRON, Neil, NEWBOLT, Henry, PAIN, Barry, PHILLIPS, Stephen, PHILLPOTTS, Eden, PICKTHALL, Marjorie L. C., RAWNSLEY, H. D., RHOADES, James, SEAMAN, Sir Owen, SICJEL, Walter, STACPOOLE, H. de Vere, STUART, Dorothy Margaret, UNDERHILL, Evelyn, VERNÈDE, R. E., WATSON, William].

Songs & Sonnets for England in War Time. Being a Collection of Lyrics by Various Authors Inspired by the Great War.

London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1914.

FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2]; xiv; 96. Publisher's plain card wraps with dust-jacket lettered in red to all faces, printed price of 1/- net to spine.

A little toned to edges, a few marks to covers. A very well preserved copy. Fine.

A collection of poems issued to raise funds for the Prince of Wales's National Relief Fund.

Catherine W. Reilly: English Poetry of the First World War p.26.