ON FEBRUARY 19, 1963, JOHN, PAUL, GEORGE AND RINGO FOUND OUT THAT 'PLEASE PLEASE ME' WAS THEIR FIRST NUMBER ONE SINGLE - though the news would not be formally announced until the following weekend - and girls were queuing outside The Cavern for one of the last gigs The Beatles would ever play at the club. That same day photographer Michael Ward drove from London to photograph the band for a magazine article.

Like many people outside of Liverpool at the time, Ward had no prior knowledge of The Beatles. He could not have predicted the significance of the day he spent with them, or known that these were the last moments in which the band would walk the streets of their hometown, or any town for that matter, with only the occasional perceptive admirer taking an interest and perhaps asking for an autograph.

Fortunately, Ward was not satisfied with shooting the single 'group photograph' required by his magazine. He and The Beatles spent the morning together searching for good locations around the city, enjoying cups of tea on the Pier Head docks and ambling through cobbled streets, talking with local fans as they went.

Ward continued to document the afternoon as they went shopping for records at NEMS and visited the offices of their manager, Brian Epstein, finally capturing the early-evening rehearsals and subsequent performance of one of The Beatles' last ever nights at The Cavern club on Mathew Street.

In just 24 hours, Ward had amassed an incredible collection of photographs of four young men whose lives were about to change and whose faces were about to become some of the most recognisable on earth - a band on the cusp of their first UK chart success, unaware of the unprecedented stardom about to befall them.

A DAY IN THE LIFE PRESENTS THESE PHOTOGRAPHS FOR THE FIRST TIME AS A LIMITED EDITION PORTFOLIO - UNSEEN OUTTAKES OF A VERY SPECIAL DAY IN THE LIFE OF THE BEATLES.

Along with the gallery-sized prints, an accompanying signed book carries an essay featuring Michael Ward's recollections, with illustrative plates and informative captioning details throughout.