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(OVENDEN, GRAHAM). Ovenden, Graham. Introduction by Robert Melville. London & New York: Academy Editions & St. Martin's Press, 1976. First Edition 1/1500. 4to. Gilt-Stamped Cloth. Artist Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np, 30 monochrome illustrations. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. Painter, photographer, photographic historian - Graham Ovenden symbolizes many things to many people. Hounded by censors for decades and convicted in 2013 in his native England of charges of indecency with a child as well as indecent assault against a child, this member of the "Brotherhood of Ruralists" has for over forty years chronicled the bucolic British countryside along with female youth in all its splendour. This 1976 first book of Ovenden's own work features thirty reproductions in collotype of drawings and photographs that illuminate "Aspects of Lolita" accompanied by an introduction from the noted late British Art historian Robert Melville. A bright, most handsome example of the exceedingly uncommon first and only printing limited to one thousand, five hundred unnumbered copies with the publisher's review slip additionally laid in. Inventory Number: 024229