Jeremy Adler. Alphabet Music

London, Alphabox/Pirate Press/Writers Forum, 1974. Six silkscreen prints with hand-coloured additions, 36 x 25.5 cm. From an edition of 130 hand-coloured copies. Includes a printed publishers's sheet with instructions by the artist.

Each sheet contains 15 letters, either whole or in fragments. The sheets are meant to be arranged in sequence, forming a musical score, with the hand-coloured letter indicating the key. Copy with pronounced toning and a tear to the first sheet, other sheets show yellowing to edges. Dynamic work by the British visual poet and lecturer Jeremy Adler (b. 1947).