Modern British Composers Seventeen Portraits By Herbert Lambert

by (United Kingdom - Music History - Photography - Herbert Lambert)

$250 · Offered by Biblio

First edition

London, England: F. & B. Goodwin Ltd., 1923. Printed at the Pelican Press; plate printing supervised by Herbert Lambert; photogravures by the Rembrandt Intaglio Company. All portraits are tipped-in, portrait name in the plate as well as on the discrete accreditation line on the lower margin. With a foreword on contemporary British music by Eugene Goosens. Portraits include Sir Edward Elgar; Dame Ethel Smyth; Granville Bantock; Vaughan Williams; Gustav Holst; Roger Quilter; Rutland Boughton; Josef Holbrooke; Frank Bridge; Cyril Scott; John Ireland; Lord Berners; Arnold Bax; Armstrong Gibbs; Arthur Bliss; Herbert Howells and Eugene Goosens. Collated complete; front endpaper with the small ex-libris plate of Wiston Old Rectory. Approx. 9" x 12 1/4" size; bound in bright goldenrod-yellow polished paper covered boards, beige cloth spine; gilt cover titles, deeply impressed; a little dustiness & light soiling, few small spots to the binding; in very good condition; and engaging, well-composed gravure portraiture of these composers.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

• Publisher: F. & B. Goodwin Ltd.
• Year: 1923
• Edition: First Edition
• Binding: hardcover

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