Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1997
11 x 16cm, 1pp. A quote from Virgil is repeated twice:

-- THEY lightly skim,
And gently sip the dimply river's brim.

One quotation is allocated by Finlay as being about bees, the other boats. VG+.

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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (1997) 7.4 x 6.5cm, 4pp. Artist's postcard a drawing by Gary Hincks of a row of growing beans above which a model airplane has been placed on a string and thin stake presumably to keep birds off the planting.

A text internally reads:

Row of beans
And one old bomber
To scare the birds.


It appears this drawing was from an actual such installation in the garden of Andrew Whittle's Rose Cottage. Whittle was a stone carver and a collaborator with Finlay. VG+.

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