FOR SIMON CUTTS. 1989.

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1989
14 x 9.5cm, 4pp. Artist’s folding card with the text “a line of thin pale red” inside which is a translation from Chenier – the French poet of revolutionary times who was guillotined. The red here being blood and the line that left momentarily from the clean cut of the blade. I do not know if Cutts and Finlay were friends at this point – as the card seems to hint at threat – but both published jointly a similar work together under the aegis of Cutts’ Coracle Press a few years earlier. VG+.