First edition, first printing. iv, 432pp, with tissue-guarded portrait plate frontispiece and one further portrait illustration. Red cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on the spine. Deckled edges. Black endpapers. Signed by Ernest Newman on the front free endpaper and signed and dated by Newman on the half-title. 8vo. Cloth is worn and marked, rubbed at corners and spine ends, very slightly sunned over spine. Hinges strained and endpapers warped and have lost their sheen. Some spotting on first and last few leaves, with typical browning to tissue-guard., else internally neat and clean. Firmly bound and square.
Sir Charles Halle (born Karl Halle, 1819-1895) was a Prussian-British pianist and conductor and founder of the Halle Orchestra. This volume of his life and letters was edited and prepared for publication by his son and daughter shortly after his death. Ernest Newman (born William Roberts, 1868-1959) was the foremost music critic of the late 19th and early 20th century, music critic for The Sunday Times for nearly forty years.
