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Depicts three scythes with same handle but different blades, viz., a lightening bolt that evolves to a sickle from left to right. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Depicts three columns with camouflage markings. The caption deals with contemporary Architectural critical beliefs in constructing columns, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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An aphorism is printed on each page, e.g., The pine is the estuary of the oak. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a "Space Poem" after Gael Turnbull. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Depicts a flowering wildrose plant, a symbol used in the French Republican calendar that was established in 1794. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Published on Christmas day 1994. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Blum was involved in the decision to reject Finlay's proposed commission for the city of Paris. The poem reads, "Ambiguous, n., of doubtful meaning. OF DOUBTFUL MEANING." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This depicts a photograph by Carwin of a bust of Saint-Just. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The image depicts the Arrosoir (Watering-can) among flowers, the name of the day in the Republican calendar that the Robespierrists were gullotined during the French revolution. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The one word is "knitters!" and is a slur at Finlay's critics in Paris who were disturbed by his proposed commission for the city of Paris that compared Nazism to the French revolution. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue consists entirely of a critical essay by Stephen Bann on Finlay's works dealing with the French Revolution. The cover is red paper stock, the end papers are blue paper stock, and the text is printed on white paper stock, e.g., the French tricolor flag. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The proposal printed in large red letters on the inside of the card reads, "A Revolution." Roe & Moore WEB 2016 for "A collection of letters and cuttings relating to the cancelled commission for a garden to commemorate the bi-centenary of the French revolution. From the collection of Douglas Maxwell" priced the collection at $836 thst included a single typed, signed letter by Finlay thereby valuing a signed Finlay letter between $400-$500. A typed letter from Ian Hamilton Finlay, signed Ian ink, dated 29.5.88 on his Little Sparta/Raspberry Republic headed paper. Gives an outline of the whole affair and denoujnces his detractors in pungent language; 'One also wonders whether these people have ever encountered an actual anti-Semite or Nazi. Sue and I have worked hard, and endured much; for the last thirty years; to achieve what we have To be denounced by people who are relatively youthful, who have never been hungry, who have incomes and security and whose lives have been-in...