First edition, 228pp, with 37 plate portraits. Black cloth-covered boards with gilt titling on spine. 8vo. Cloth a little rubbed and rounded at corners and spine ends. Previous owner's name inked on front free endpaper else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust wrapper, worn and chapped at edges, flat crease at bottom of front panel.
Donald Brook builds on his earlier, wartime, work looking at British conductors, evaluating the work of conductors such as Toscanini, Barbirolli, Thomas Beecham, Basil Cameron etc.
