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Cythera / Ian Hamilton Finlay
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FA.SB1.5023
14 unnumbered leaves ; 26 cm
1965
Softcover. Staple bound with light blue printed dust jacket. Letterpress. Edition of 250.
The inner pages have single words or short phrases printed in an italic font. The text in page order is:
“air/ in blue/ leaf/ blue bark/and blue leaf/ a leaf/ a barque/a blue leaf/ a barque in leaf-blue/aire”
The book title Cythera is from the title of the painting – The Embarkation for Cythera (“L’Embarquement pour Cythère”) by Jean-Antoine Watteau.
The inner pages have single words or short phrases printed in an italic font. The text in page order is:
“air/ in blue/ leaf/ blue bark/and blue leaf/ a leaf/ a barque/a blue leaf/ a barque in leaf-blue/aire”
The book title Cythera is from the title of the painting – The Embarkation for Cythera (“L’Embarquement pour Cythère”) by Jean-Antoine Watteau.