Slow Fall to Dawn book cover 1981 Les Edwards Pencil Prelim

Artist: Les Edwards
Cover title: Slow Fall to Dawn book cover; author Stephen Leigh (pub. Bantam, 1981).
Medium: Pencil preliminary
Size: 340 x 250mm
Signed: ‘Les Edwards’ at bottom
Notes: Written ‘Slow Fall to Dawn’ text at the bottom, and notes at the side for lighting and “three legs on this side”. On the final painting the figures are larger, Les told me “the publishers wanted the figures made larger, which I did, but I think to the detriment of the impact of the painting. However the customer is always right”.