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Elgar, Edward--Lambert, Herbert.
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Description
- Modern British Composers. Seventeen Portraits by Herbert Lambert, London: F. & B. Goodwin Ltd, 1923, containing photographs signed by Elgar, Howells and others, and autograph letters signed by Elgar, Stanford, Vaughan WIlliams and others
- paper and ink
the fine photographic portraits signed and inscribed by Elgar, Ethel Smyth, Ireland and Howells, with further portraits of Bantock, Vaughan Williams, Holst, Quilter, Boughton, Holbrooke, Bridge, Cyril Scott, Lord Berners, Bax, Armstrong Gibbs, Bliss, and Eugene Goossens, first edition, 5, [17], pages, folio (the photographs measuring c.17 x 12.5cm), with a loose clipped signature of Boughton and one loose photographic portrait of Howells, signed, preface by Eugene Goossens, publisher's cloth-backed yellow boards gilt, split at hinge, first gathering becoming loose;
with around 20 autograph and typed letters about the volume, signed by Stanford, Elgar (2), Quilter (2), Holbrooke, Ethel Smyth, Howells (2), Vaughan Williams, Ireland, Holst, Bax, Bliss, Henry Wood, Herbert Lambert and others, including some newspaper cuttings and a typed letter signed by the New York photographer Pirie MacDonald, 30 pages, various sizes, mostly 1923, where indicated
with around 20 autograph and typed letters about the volume, signed by Stanford, Elgar (2), Quilter (2), Holbrooke, Ethel Smyth, Howells (2), Vaughan Williams, Ireland, Holst, Bax, Bliss, Henry Wood, Herbert Lambert and others, including some newspaper cuttings and a typed letter signed by the New York photographer Pirie MacDonald, 30 pages, various sizes, mostly 1923, where indicated
Condition
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Catalogue Note
A fine assemblage of portraits and letters by the leading English composers of the first quarter of the twentieth century. The letters, all addressed to the Bath portrait photographer Herbert Lambert, include two autograph letters by Elgar and a rather irate one by Stanford expressing his bafflement at being omitted from Lambert's list. See also lot 39.