The Collected Letters of Peter Warlock (Philip Heseltine) [4 volume set]

[T]he value of this complete edition - as opposed to a selection - is reinforced by its gamut...it will be grist to the mill of music's social history. Barry Smith and Boydell have placed many scholars in their debt for bringing this project to achievement. * MUSICAL TIMES [David Wright] *
Barry Smith is an admirable editor. The letters come from many sources and it is a major achievement to have collected so many...in four handsome volumes. -- John Steane * GRAMOPHONE *
His letters are never less than articulate and inventive in prose, while at best, they rise to an exuberance of argument and evocation, shot through with penetrating insights into music and life, that border on virtuosity...[One] opens one of these volumes at random, and is hooked again... -- Bayan Northcott * BBC MUSIC *
In what must be one of the boldest initiatives of its kind in recent times, the Boydell Press has published the entire opus - 986 letters and a fascinating envoi of posthumous tributes - in four handsomely produced volumes, superbly edited by his biographer, Barry Smith. -- Richard Osborne * THE OLDIE *
[A] riveting read. 5 stars. * CLASSIC FM MAGAZINE *
[Smith's] editionof the Collected Letters, beautifully and impeccably presented by the Boydell Press, is a model of its kind, and in effect can be read as the closest to an autobiography of Peter Warlock we are ever likely to possess. -- John Talbot * BRITISH MUSIC SOCIETY NEWSLETTER *
The editing is exemplary, there are plenty of photographs, extensive footnotes and indexes; the volumes are a joy to behold and handle. -- John Amis * TABLET *