Cup.404.c.1/12

Sir Thomas Malory: The Birth, Life and Acts of King Arthur ... and ... Le Morte Darthur ... embellished ... by Aubrey Beardsley. With an introduction by Professor John Rhys (3rd ed., 1927). A copy of the publication by Dent, presented to Dame Myra Hess by the Musicians’ Benevolent Fund in 1942 and signed by the Chairman, Frank Howes, and thirty-two others.

pp. lv + 538 + ff. iv + 22 plates. 290 x 220mm. Quarter leather binding with marbled boards.

includes:

• ff. i-ii Frank Stewart Howes, writer on music: Sir George Dyson, composer: Kenneth Mackenzie Clark, Baron Clark: Julia Myra Hess, DBE; pianist: Frank Thistleton, Secretary, Musicians' Benevolent Fund: Edgar Stanley Roper, Principal of Trinity College of Music, London: Elena Gerhardt, mezzo-soprano: Jean Hadley, née Stewart; viola player: Mary Irene Curzon, 2nd Baroness Ravensdale of Kedleston: Irene Baker, singer: Sidney Griller, violinist: Edwin Worman, of the National Gallery: Ralph A. Holden, solicitor: Muriel Williams, musician: William Pettigrew Gibson, Keeper of the National Gallery: J. E Furnival-Jones, musician: Marguerite Wells, musician: Leonard Wells, musician: Dorothea Heath, musician: Evelyn Karp, musician: Beryl Davis, Secretary to Dame Myra Hess: Colin Hampton, cellist: Jack O'Brien, violinist: Philip Burton, viola player: Barbara Kenyon, musician: Sir Stanley Robert Marchant, composer and organist: Malory's 'Le Morte Darthur' illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley, presented to Julia Myra Hess, signed by Frank Stewart Howes, Mary Irene Curzon, Sir George Dyson, Sir Stanley Robert Marchant, Edgar Stanley Roper, Irene Baker, Elena Gerhardt, Sidney Griller, E: 1927: Printed.
• ff. iii-iv Howard Ferguson, composer: Philip Rowland Harris, Deputy Keeper, Acquisitions Division, The British Library: Photocopies of two letters to Philip Rowland Harris from Howard Ferguson: 1973: Typewritten, signed.