The Beatles Abbey Road Iconic Album Cover Lithograph Ultra Rare Non Plate Signed Version. I must stress that this extremely rare Abbey Road museum quality lithograph that was authorized Apple Corps in 1993 and the Apple logo on the lithograph is embossed.

What makes this particular lithograph so unique is that it’s not numbered, the regular edition size for each album was 9,800 lithographs, that were all plate signed by The Beatles. A handful of these lithos were made without the plate signatures with the intention of having Paul McCartney or Ringo Starr sign them as a special limited edition lithograph (like they did with Rolling Stones lithograph serious/ see the Stones hand signed Some Girls litho I have listed), which never materialized. This Apple-licensed lithograph, made for one of the best albums ever made and the Beatles' last, is an extremely rare find.

This Beatles Abbey Road album cover lithograph from a series of lithographs entitled The Beatles Album Artwork Collection. The collection was published by Determined Productions/ Beatles Album Art who in 1993. Determined Productions also marketed under the name Musicom) secured the rights from Apple Corps Ltd., to use the artwork from the original 12 Beatles album covers from Please Please Me to Let It Be as lithographs. The wide lower margin, bears the embossed Apple logo and a licensing caption for Apple Corps Limited.

This beautiful lithograph measures a large 22 1/2" x 26 1/2" approximittley and is printed on acid free 100 # Quintessence dull cover stock. In fine condition and will be shipped rolled, there are a few very small marks and very light creasing in the top left hand corner (see scans), which will mostly go unnoticed once framed.

Iain MacMillan was the photographer who took this iconic album cover photograph on August 8, 1969, employing 10 minutes of time to take six photographs that day. Paul McCartney picked the fifth of the six shots to be used as the album cover—the rest were discarded. Over the years MacMillan issued only a handful of this Abbey Road photograph, which has sold for over $25,000. Although this is a lithograph and not a photograph, it was printed using the original album cover artwork that Apple Corps licensed to Determined Productions (the publisher) to be used for the printing of this lithograph.

I wrote the below for another listing and had to add it to this one, some of it might overlap what I wroten in the last paragraph, but I just had to add it: 

Iain's Abbey Road photo shoot with The Beatles is still mind blowing after all these years. Paul gave Iain a sketch a few days before the shoot of what the picture should look like and Iain added his sketch to Paul's to confirm the layout. On August 8th 1969 at about 11:34 AM at EMI Studios (now Abbey Road Studios) on Abbey Road, with a policeman on hand to hold up traffic, Iain was only given ten minutes to take the photographs of the band. He climbed up a stepladder six to eight feet in the air in the middle of Abbey Road and took six photographs of The Beatles crossing the street. The fifth photograph was selected, as it was the only photo where their legs were in perfect formation, not intentionally just ironically....This iconic image is one of the most recognized photographs in the history of photography.....It's a work of art!!!! Besides that, it's one of if not the best album covers of all time in the history of recorded music....Simply amazing, all done in a ten minute photo shoot!!!!

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