Hardy (Thomas) Compassion: An Ode in Celebration of the Centenary of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 16pp., one of 50 copies signed by A.J.A.Symons, stitched, uncut, foxing particularly to first and last leaves, privately printed [at the Morland Press] for A.J.A.Symons, [1924]; another issue, 8pp. (single folded sheet), number 83 of 500 copies printed for the subscribers to The First Edition & Book Collector, lightly browned, 1924; The Song of the Soldiers, 8pp, reprinted from 'The Times' of 9th September 1914, original printed brown wrappers, Hove, 1915; The Oxen, 4pp., reprinted from 'The Times' 24th December 1915, original printed wrappers, spine a little worn, Hove, privately printed, 28th December 1915; Yuletide in a Younger World, Ariel Poem No.1, 8pp., pochoir frontispiece by Albert Rutherston, original printed green wrappers with flaps, [1927], [Purdy p.232 note, 158, 175 & 249], 8vo (5)


⁂ Compassion was first printed simultaneously in the centenary volume of the Society of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and in The Times on 16th June 1924. The latter stated that there was no copyright and Hardy was immediately solicited about reissuing it privately. Mrs. Hardy contacted Ling, the local Dorchester printer, who ran off 25 copies in under an hour enabling Mrs. Hardy to reply that it was already in print.