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Prints / PR1462

Acresford Quarry

Artist/Maker: Graham, Rigby [1931-2015]



Publisher/Manufacturer: W.F. Gadsby, 22 Market Place, Leicester
Series title: Leicestershire

1980
Colour letterpress on white wove bond paper

254 x 320 mm.
Purchase: The artist 1987
Funding support: Catherine Lewis Trust

Illustration for Rigby Graham's 'Leicestershire', a book / landscape folio, commissioned by W.F.Gadsby in 1976 and printed at the Sycamore Press, Leicester, in 1980. The volume has 160 pages, 161 illustrations (52 in colour and 109 in black and white), text by Rigby Graham, an introduction by Alan Tucker, a slip case and measures 387 x 362mm. It was published in a limited edition of 150 signed and numbered copies at £500. 'Leicestershire' was intended as a tribute to John Flower's 'Views of the Ancient Buildings in the Town and County of Leicester' on the 150th anniversary of its publication in 1826



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