ELGAR HIS LIFE AND WORKS. SIGNED BY ELGAR. AND OTHERS. de MAINE, Basil. UNIQUE COPY: - 1933

London, G. Bell & Sons Ltd, 1933.. LIMITED SIGNED EDITION 1933, 2 VOLUMES IN ONE. 20 COPIES ONLY, OF WHICH THIS IS COPY NO 11. SIGNED BY SIR EDWARD ELGAR, BASIL MAINE, ADRIAN C. BOULT, W. H. REED AND SIR LANDON RONALDS. SIGNATURE OF THE AUTHOR (pasted in) AND THAT OF ADRIAN BOULT ARE ON THE FIRST FREE ENDPAPER PLUS NOTES BY THE AUTHOR ABOUT WHERE AND WHEN THE SIGNATURES WERE OBTAINED. All signatures in ink. Bell's Musical Publications, general editor Adrian C. Boult. Approximately 225 x 145 mm, 9 x 5½ inches, 2 frontispieces, 5 illustrations, 1 folding, some musical notation in the text of Volume 2, pages: Volume 1, xv, 282 including Appendix, Volume 2, 317 including Appendix plus ix pages of index, general title page to the 2 Volumes, no separate title page is called for in Volume 2. Bound in publisher's quarter vellum with gilt lettering to spine, purple linen boards separated by a vertical gilt rule, gilt top edge. Spine lightly browned and dusty, covers and corners have edge wear with very slight loss of linen, inner paper hinge cracked, limitation page foxed, rear free endpaper foxed, occasional very light foxing to margins otherwise a very good copy. W.H. Reed composer and leader of the London Symphony for 23 years was a long standing friend of Sir Edward Elgar, author of Elgar As I Knew Him (1936), in which he goes into great detail about the genesis of the Violin Concerto in B minor. Sir Adrian Cedric Boult, famous conductor, Sir Landon Ronald, conductor and composer was also closely associated with the music of Edward Elgar but since they both worked for the same record company, Ronald only recorded one of Elgar's works, the "Coronation March", on 7 March 1935, a year after Elgar's death. He was the pianist in the first performance of Elgar's Violin Sonata in E minor in 1919, with W.H. Reed the violinist. Above Elgar's signature and just below the limitation statement and after his printed name he has written "Who knows nothing of the contents". MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.