Edward Elgar: The Record of a Friendship

First edition.  212pp, with illustrated frontispiece.  Orange cloth boards with gilt titles on spine. Decorated endpapers. 8vo.  Cloth very slightly rubbed and rounded at corners else neat., clean, bright and tight throughout.  In its original illustrated, glossy dust wrapper, a little bumped along upper edge and at base of spine. In 1891, Rosa Burley took over a finishing school in Malvern where the young, an almost unknown, Edward Elgar, was a visiting violin teacher.  Although their first meeting was not a success, they became life-long friends, with Burley supporting Elgar's career.  But Burley was far from idolatrous and the portrait of Elgar which emerges from this account of their friendship is candid and intimate.