Including:
News: screenprint, organic, split fount for background, printed with blackcurrant pie filling, over red salmon roe.
Mews: screenprint, organic, background printed with Bolognese sauce, split fount for letting, printed with blackcurrant pie filling over cherry pie filling, over mixed raw egg.
Pews: screenprint, organic, background printed with Hershey's chocolate flavour syrup and Camp coffee and chicory essence (6:4), with squid ink for lettering.
Brews: screenprint, organic, split fount lettering printed with axle grease, over caviar.
Stews: screenprint, organic, split fount lettering printed with crushed baked beans, caviar, fresh strawberries, cherry pie filling, mango chutney, tomato paste, daffodils, tulips, and leaves.
Dues: screenprint, organic, background and lettering printed with Branston Pickle.
Also includes leaflet with photos by Tony Evans of Ed Ruscha shopping Covent Garden and series of contact sheets showing Ed Ruscha and Lyndon Haywood at work on printing this series.
"Lyn (Haywood) and Ed Ruscha would go out to buy products, Ruscha was interested in the colours from unorthodox materials...We had the problem that egg salmon roe for example might change over a month from when it was first proofed. Some of the images with time have got darker, others lighter, as the cellulose in the good cartridge paper that was used reacts with the organic stains and changes the colour...Baked beans and crushed daffodils, for example, gave you little colour, others like salmon roe printed darker than one might think." (Kevin Harris, interviewed by Tessa Sidey for Editions Alecto: Original Graphics, Multiple Originals 1960-1981, Lund Humphries, London, 2003).