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This page consist sof a frame of collaged, engraved abstracted men's heads surrounding a center section of 50 pale blue painted tile-like blocks as if the figures are seated around a table.The poem reads, "the table, - everybody correct, - accurate persons put together - correct conversation ; Grenville soon relieved of his awful partner - Lady Ashford deliver me from you to-night" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

On the right side of the collage, a running abstracted figure made from old papers with black and white engravingsis depicted. The same figure made from fragmented text appears on the left side of the collage. The poem reads: "At last a letter, - and a prospect; - a prospect of pleasure - to merge with pleasure after pleasure - night acceptance. Night saw her hasten towards a man---a corpulent man," This poem probably signifies Phillips meeting his wife Fiona in the night after work at their house in Oxford. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The drawing depicts a quilt made from calling cards of prostitutes who leave their cards in telephone booths of the Soho section of London. Phillips made several large collages using this material at the time the drawing was made. The poem reads "in Styria hard and dirty - the Princess under three legs - came and came - come Princess - come to our room to be beaten again - she came - long and wild - and came hard." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is the first globe made by Phillips. It contains poetic fragments of "A Humument" texts that create imaginative continents, oceans and star maps. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

On this page, Phillips has collaged vertical strips of text from the same second page from A Human Document. The texts are pasted over a large painted X. The newly formed text create a fragmented language. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The collages constitute the original artwork of illustrations for the book by Malcolm Bradbury "Cuts" which is held by Sackner Archive. Cuts refers to U.K. governmental 'cuts' of the budget. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This image is taken from Phillips illustration of Dante's Inferno, Canto XXVIII/3. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

In pencil on the front of the folder Phillips has written "We were going to make a portfolio with John Furnival but abandoned the idea...this was the crude start...note the alterntative name at this stage!" Printed on the folder is "some pages of a Human Document A HUMENT....a humument".This print is a proof of Plakat 8. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.