Rare original proof of David Bailey’s 1965 Box of Pin-Ups discovered

Photos of Mick Jagger and Michael Caine from the proof copy of Bailey’s landmark collection of portraits. Photograph: David Bailey

David Bailey’s Box of Pin-Ups of 1965 was a defining portrait of the swinging 60s, immortalising some of the most fashionable stars of the era, from John Lennon and Mick Jagger to Jean Shrimpton and Susan Murray.

Now the original proof copy of this landmark portfolio of 36 portraits by one of Britain’s foremost photographers has come to light for the first time. It is the personal working proof copy of David Hillman, the influential graphic designer who went on to give the Guardian a groundbreaking redesign in 1988.