2 CONSTELLATIONS FOR A COLUMN, THE GYLE. 1994. WITH BOOKMARK.

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1994
10 x 7.4cm, 8pp plus wrappers and printed dustjacket. Artist’s book with a poem by Finlay and a quote from Virgil’s Aeneid about sailing which regards ships as “nymphs of ocean”.:

“ships
nymphs

nymphs
ships

.

bark
barque

barque
bark

VG+.
JOINT (LAID IN):
10 x 4.5cm, 2pp explanatory card (‘bookmark”) by Thomas A. Clark which points to the transformation of boat into wood and wood into boat as well as the classical tropes of change in gods and humans. VG+.