Collector's hardback, edition of 75, cloth covered with inset image, numbered, housed in a slipcase with four signed and numbered original lithographs and two dvds. 336 pages, 140 illustrations.
Biography of Rigby Graham by Malcolm Yorke, biographer of Eric Gill, Keith Vaughan, Matthew Smith, Edward Bawden and Mervyn Peake. Beautifully printed and bound in the UK.
Not only is he impelled to produce work, he has to find a hard way to do so – in a cramped bedroom, with makeshift equipment, by a painfully laborious method, using a woody medium which resists him all the way, or painting in the damp field where we first encountered him at the beginning of this book. It can truly be said of Rigby Graham, both the man and the artist, that he has always gone against the grain. - Malcolm Yorke