David Hockney, Hockney's Alphabet, 1991

Folio. With 26 full-page colour drawings, one for each letter of the alphabet, by Hockney.

Original yellow buckram, spine lettered in gilt on a dark blue ground, printed on Exhibition Fine Art Cartridge paper, cream endpapers. Housed in the original grey cloth slipcase.

24 x 32 cm (9.44 x 12.6 in)

Unknown edition size

Special edition of Hockney's Alphabet signed by the artist and editor

In 1991, as a fundraising initiative in support of the Aids Crisis Trust in London, David Hockney created a series of illustrations representing the Alphabet.   Each letter has an accompanying text commissioned or curated by the poet, Sir Stephen Spender and comprising work from a glittering collection of distinguished writers and poets