Finlay, Ian Hamilton
A collection
£1,375
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 23 June 2021 at 11:00 BST
Description
Two prints, comprising: Dove, dead in its snows & Apollo and Daphne, design for a wall; [and a collection of books and paper ephemera:] Six Proposals for the improvement of Stockwood Park Nurseries in the Borough of Luton. Little Sparta, Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorne Press, 1985/6. One of 250 copies, with a typed letter, signed, from Ian Hamilton Finlay gifting the book and discussing the project; Evening will come, They will Sew the Blue Sail. Ian Hamilton Finlay and the Wild Hawthorn Press 1958-1991. Edinburgh: Graeme Murray, 1991; A Wartime Garden. Edinburgh: Graeme Murray, 1990; Myths. Wild Hawthorne Press, 1991; Six Milestones. Wild Hawthorne Press, 1992; Thomas Jefferson's Garden Book. Wild Hawthorne Press, 1986. 6 copies; The pears and frets of nettles, [n.d.] 7 copies; Saint-Just - a pack of Wild Hawthorne Press seeds; Unnatural Pebbles... Edinburgh: Graeme Murray Gallery, 1981; Instruments of Revolution. London: ICA, 1992; Lute, Lyre, Luger: chant for a Regional Occasion, 2000 voices; The Sound of a Single Swallow. Wild Hawthorne Press; Two Examples. Wild Hawthorne Press; Nature Over Again after Poussin. Glasgow: Collins Exhibition Hall, [n.d.]; The Old Stonypath Hoy. Wild Hawthorne Press, 1991; L'Idylle des Cerises. Wild Hawthorne Press, [n.d.]; Thermidor, 1ère Décade, 1989; The Wild Hawthorn Art Test. Wild Hawthorn Press, [n.d.] The Perfect Sentence. Wild Hawthorne Press, [n.d.]; Interpolations in Hegel. Wild Hawthorne Press, 1984. Inscribed and signed 'Ian'; A Bridge too Far: the First Battle of Little Sparta, 4th February 1983; A Concise Classical Dictionary, Christmas 1988, one of 250; Abrioux, Yves Homage to Ian Hamilton Finlay. London: Victoria Miro Gallery; Bann, Stephen Ian Hamilton Finlay. Shenval / Wild Hawthorne Press, 1972; and a large collection of others