First edition, first printing. viii, 314pp, with colour plate frontispiece and further black and white plate illustrations. Brown publisher's cloth-covered boards, gilt-stamped lettering on the spine. 8vo Cloth a little rounded at corners, rubbed and rounded on spine ends, slightly marked with remains of label on front panel. Some mild spotting on text block edges. Previous owner's bookplate on front paste else internally neat and clean.
Gervase Elwes (1866-1921) was an English tenor known for the power and sincerity of his voice, and as a singer and supporter of English art-song. He lost his live, at the height of his career, in a railway accident in Boston, USA.
