25 Feb IAN HAMILTON FINLAY. VARIACIONS SOBRE DIVERSOS TEMES. 1999.
Barcelona: Fundacio Joan Miro, 2000
10.5 x 21cm, 4pp announcement card with a Finlay relief sculpture on the front, inside gallery details. VG+.
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20 Feb A SOLITARY LANE. 1999.
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1999
16 x 14.4cm, 4pp card printed black on white with a linocut by Jo Hincks of a stern of a ship and its wake.. A text below by Finlay notes:
a solitary laner
swelling and vanishing
opened at the stern
Comparing the wake with a country lane winding behind (or in front ) of you. VG+.
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04 Feb ECHOES SERIES. IN PREACHING. 1999.
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1999
6.2 x 6.3cm, 4pp card printed black on grey. Two poems both inspired by Bishop Andrewes from his "Devotions" collection of prayers. The firs shows the word as the sea (as often found in Christian iconography) and the second the land as the sea. Both list objects and animals found in (firstly) Christian preaching and secondly during a walk. VG+.
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01 Feb ILLUSTRATIONS. 1999.
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1999
10 x 12.5cm, 2pp card printed black on light blue. Finlay lists nine of the Flower Class Corvettes that served in the Battle of the Atlantic as if they were a calendar - they are ordered in the months that they first sailed after completion. The list is also reminiscent of how the French revolutionary calendar renamed months after objects. VG+.
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29 Jan AN APPRECIATION OF THE RN FLOWERS. 1999.
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1999
7.6 x 12.6cm, 2pp card printed black on grey. Finlay's text is a one word poem:
An Appreciation of the RN Flowers
Perennials
The use of Perennials - a plant that comes out every year reminds us of the annual commemorations for those who fought in our wars. VG+.
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20 Jan MORE FLOWERS. 1999.
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1999
9 x 7.4cm, 19pp, plus turquoise card covers. Content of three drawings of flowers by Jo Hincks along with quotations about warships - all from the Flower Class of corvettes - found in a book by Preston & Raven from 1942. Each quotation gives the drawing its subject - for instance:
Anemone, Bluebell
Ships with
original
sheer and flare.
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14 Jan FLOWERS. 1999.
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1999
9.2 x 7.5cm, 12pp, plus turquoise card covers. Content of three codes for different types of flower used in a seed suppliers catalogue (all have only the initial of the word to identify them) below which Finlay has added three names of warships - all from the Flower Class of corvettes - where the names also start with the same letter.
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07 Jan FLOWER STEM (2). 1999.
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1999
18.5 x 6.4cm, 4pp card printed black on white with a drawing of the front of a boat with a Plimsel line which ascends to the number XIX by Jo Hincks. Finlay notes the resemblance of the shape of the front of a boat to a stalk of a flower. This is the second of two cards which have the same image and text - the only difference being size. VG+.
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05 Jan FLOWER STEM (1). 1999.
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1999
33.8 x 11.3cm, 4pp card printed black on white with a drawing of the front of a boat with a Plimsel line which ascends to the number XIX by Jo Hincks. Finlay notes the resemblance of the shape of the front of a boat to a stalk of a flower. This is the first of two cards which have the same image and text - the only difference being size. VG+.
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02 Jan INKJET COPY FOR PROOFING OF GALLERY HANDOUT FOR VARIATIONS ON SEVERAL THEMES. 1999.
Probably: Little Sparta: s.p. Finlay, 1999
21 x 30cm, 8pp (stapled together top left) An inkjet printer output of the proposed texts for a gallery hand out for a large Finlay retrospective in Barcelona. Sent to Janet Boulton by email and printed out by herself for proof-reading. Bit tatty.
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02 Jan A LAST WORD: RUDDER. 1999.
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1999
12.5 x 9cm, 4pp card printed red on white. A line art drawing of rudder by Gary Hincks has the text: "A last word: Rudder" on the steering handle.
A rudder is, of course, the last element of a boat and, in terms of being the part that causes the direction of the vessel, also has 'the last word". VG+.
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20 Dec FACT CARD 1. 1998.
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1998
9.7 x 152cm, 2pp card printed black on deep green. The "fact" revealed on the card is that "over 200 Flowers served as convoy escorts in WW2" - again referring to the Flower Class of corvettes that were used in the war as protection for the merchant navy bringing supplies from the USA to Britain. VG+.
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