Carol / Strange Service

A copy of the second edition (March 1919) of Ivor Gurney's collection 'Severn and Somme', first published in November 1917 by Sidgwick and Jackson, owned by Gurney and annotated and corrected by him some time after 1921, probably in April 1925. Includes an inscription by Gurney, numerous alterations in the poet's hand, in black and blue ink, and descriptions of where Gurney remembers the poems to have been written. With multiple corrections and lines crossed out Gurney notes that 'Carol' was written at Chelmsford and 'Strange Service' was written at 'Tilleloy' (France) and was written 'on the same day as 'By the Bierside''.