Elgar's inscription on the last page of 
the manuscript Gerontius score

ELGAR SOCIETY
EDITION

How You Can Help


Sponsorship and Donations

If, whether as an individual or a company, you are willing to donate £3,000 or more to the publication of a specific volume of the edition, your name will appear on the reverse title page as a sponsor of that volume. And a donation of £12,000 will allow you to appear as sole sponsor of the volume.

But any donation, however small, will help towards our dual aims of publishing the full edition and making it available to as wide a readership as possible. And if you are a British taxpayer, we will ask you to complete a Gift Aid form that will allow us to recover the income tax you will have paid on your donation. All donors will receive a bookplate recording their contribution towards publication of the Edition; if you donate £500 or more, you will receive a specifically worded bookplate for each volume you subsequently purchase.

Subscription Payments by Monthly Standing Order

You may not relish the thought of finding twice a year the full cost of a volume in a single payment. We therefore offer a subscription scheme in which, in return for payments by standing order of £10 per month, you will receive each volume on publication at a 25% discount on the full retail price, plus postage*, subject to your having a sufficient balance in your account. As a monthly subscriber, you can cancel your payments at any time providing your account remains in credit and receive a full refund of all money in your account.

* - currently estimated at:

  • £4.00 - £10.50 for addresses within Europe;
  • £9.50 - £21.50 for World Zone 1 (the Americas, Africa and Near and Middle Asia);
  • £10.50 - £24.50 for World Zone 2 (Australasia and the Far East).

Single Payment Subscriptions and Pre-Publication Orders

If you prefer not to commit yourself to monthly payments or do not wish automatically to receive all new volumes, you can still make sizeable savings on the full purchase price by joining our subscriber mailing list. With each volume that we publish, we will send you details of the next volume and its anticipated publication date. Providing you return the form, with or without payment, at least four weeks before the projected publication date, or if you have advised us that you wish to receive a copy of each volume as it is issued, you will receive a 10% discount on the full retail price. If you have chosen not to pay in advance, you will be invoiced with the volume.

And even if you are not on our subscriber mailing list, you can still obtain individual volumes at a 10% discount providing that we receive your order with at least four weeks before the advertised publication date.

Back Volumes

Providing that you remain on our subscription list, we will continue to send you details of forthcoming volumes whether or not you have recently taken up an invitation to buy. Should you subsequently wish to purchase earlier volumes, including those originally published by Novello, we shall continue to offer back volumes for sale at similarly discounted prices (25% for monthly subscribers; 10% for others) for as long as they remain in print.

Overseas Subscribers

Unless you inform us that you prefer to receive a volume by surface mail, volumes will be sent to overseas purchasers by air mail. Unfortunately, because of the high charges levied by banks on foreign currency transaction, we can only accept payment in sterling. We can, however, accept payment by credit card (Visa or Mastercard).

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