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Leather. Condition: Very Good Indeed. First edition. A striking commemorative volume for the British Empire Exhibition, pairing E. V. Lucas"s lyric tribute to empire with Elgar"s celebrated Pageant songs, illustrated in full colour. Bound in a smart red half morocco with cloth boards.First edition.Illustrated with numerous full colour lithographs throughout, including a large fold-out colour plate to rear.A striking commemorative volume produced for the 1924 British Empire Exhibition, designed as a souvenir publication celebrating the British Empire at its perceived zenith. With the full lyrics of the pageant songs written by E. V. Lucas and set to music by Sir Edward Elgar.Edward Verrall (E. V.) Lucas (1868-1938) was a prolific essayist, biographer, poet, publisher, playwright, and Punch writer. His collaboration with Elgar on the Pageant songs remains one of the most culturally visible examples of literature used in service of imperial spectacle. Bound in a smart red half morocco with cloth boards.Externally, lovely, with just one or two of the slightest handling marks. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with the odd handling mark, heavier to first and last few leaves and fore edge. With slight age toning to fore edge. Very Good Indeed. Frank Brangwyn; Spencer Pryse; Macdonald Gill (illustrator). book.…