Albans Set Etchings by Graddon Corridan (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. Signed by author 22/100. 12 etchings are tissue-guardeed. A fine copy of this exceptional work. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Dust Jacket. Limited edition of 100 copies. Original etchings. ; 4to.

Proof Copy. Signed by the artist. Unpaginated. [40] leaves. A very good original binding, with hardly any signs of wear. Green cloth boards with bright gilt titles to the front board and gilt image to the rear. Handwritten dedication to front free-endpaper: "All the very best Eric Corridan Gradon". Clean throughout. VG. ** Corridan (Corrie) Graddon was born in 1932 and was apprenticed in London in 1947 as a relief engraver and die sinker. A few years later, at a SLADE branch meeting, he heard that Sun Printers, Watford, was recruiting engravers, and he joined the Sun in February, 1956, to work in monochrome and colour engraving. He remained at the Sun for 26 years, leaving in 1982. He later worked in the jewelry trade, eventually retiring in 2007. His artistic activities ran in parallel with his full-time work, and he became a successful print-maker, exhibiting in the Mall Galleries and in the Royal Academy summer exhibitions. *** ".etched upon copper plates each with a protective blank leaf. The etchings depict Thames scenery. The inks are specially prepared from dry colour - heavy & light French black, with added cinder.". …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Ltd Edition. Hardback. 4to.pp.40. From the Library of HRH The Duke of Gloucester; purchased by ourselves from Kensington Palace. Limited signed edition: this being Number 90 from 100. Presentation copy to the Duke of Gloucester, inscribed in copperplate on the free endpaper:" Presented to His Royal Highness, The Duke of Gloucester on the occasion of the opening of Gloucester Wing St. Albans City Hospital July 3rd 1989." Specially produced Book featuring etchings printed from copperplates, printed by The Graddio Press, from work by the artist dating 1970Ð1983. A set of fine etchings printed on trace, and beautifully mounted, protected by acid free tissue. Bound in a fresh vibrant green cloth lettered gilt on the front cover./Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester(b.1944) is the second son of Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, and the youngest of the nine grandchildren of George V and Queen Mary. He is currently 31st in line of succession to the British throne. At the time of his birth, he was 5th in line to the throne, behind his first cousins Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) and Princess Margaret, his father, and his elder brother Prince William of Gloucester.He practised as an architect until the death of his elder brother placed him in direct line to inherit his father's dukedom of Gloucester, which he assumed in 1974. He married Birgitte van Deurs Henriksen in July 1972. /Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester, was born Birgitte Eva van Deurs Henriksen in Odense, Denmark, 1946. She is the younger daughter of Asger Preben Wissing Henriksen, a lawyer, and his wife, Vivian van Deurs. She was educated in Odense and Cambridge where she me her husband. About fine. Signedes.…