David Hockney, (born 1937)

Hockney's Alphabet

Hockney's Alphabet, 1991
The complete set, comprising 26 lithographs in colors on Exhibition Fine Art Cartridge paper, signed by the artist and most contributors in ink and numbered 85 in black ink on the justification page, from the edition of 250, with full text and title page, published by Faber & Faber, London, text edits by Stephen Spender, with full margins, bound in quarter vellum with handmade Fabriano Roma paper sides, in original grey slip case. (26 works)
12 5/8 x 9 5/8in (32 x 24.5cm)
volume 13 5/8 x 10 1/8in (34.5 x 25.5cm)

Signed by 22 of the 27 contributors: Doris Lessing, William Boyd, Margaret Drabble, Martin Amis, William Golding, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Nigel Nicolson, Seamus Heaney, Douglas Adams, Julian Barnes, Craig Raine, Kazuo Ishiguro, Iris Murdoch, V. S. Pritchett, Erica Jong, Arthur Miller, John Julius Norwich, Susan Sontag, Joyce Carol Oates, John Updike, Norman Mailer, and Ian McEwan.