F.L. Griggs was acclaimed as one of the finest etchers of his time. Griggs' work links that of Turner, Blake and Palmer with the Neo-Romantics Graham Sutherland and John Piper. This is a scholarly account of Griggs' life and work. ..

Throughout his career, Elgar sought confidants in the publishing world, and when he found someone to whom he could open his heart, the letters that followed were among the most arresting ever written on the creative life. In this comprehensive collection, Jerrold Northrop Moore has gathered br every letter of importance between Elgar and his publishers, including for the first time the correspondence between Elgar and his finest friend, the publishing manager of Novello, A.J. Jaeger--"Nimrod" of the "Enigma" Variations --as well as the letters Elgar wrote to Alfred Littleton, the chairman br of Novello, to Keith Prowse, his final publisher, and to many others. T ..