Modern British composers: seventeen portraits.
Herbert Lambert
Category
Books
Date
1923
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Shaw's Corner, Hertfordshire
NT 3063655
Summary
Bibliographic description
5 p., xvii leaves of portraits : ill. ; 30 cm. Provenance: inscribed "To George Bernard Shaw in high admiration from Herbert Lambert, Bath, Oct. 26th 1923." With a letter laid in from Whitney Mockridge [Canadian operatic tenor (1881-1956)], dated July 4th [19]39, sending a song under separate cover "In my small way I am trying to aid in thwarting the grave danger to our very civilization by getting to the public a song that has, I feel, a mission to inspire and unite our Empire if it can only get a hearing ...". Binding: quarter brown cloth; yellow paper over boards, gold-lettered on boards.
Makers and roles
Herbert Lambert