This card was published in 1967 according to Finlay's bibliography but verso of card indicates that the year of publication was 1968. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

According to the Finlay bibliography, this card was published in 1967 but the verso of the card indicates 1968. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Printed at the Salamander Press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The name of a fishing ship which is printed on each page in its original typeface provides a poetic expression as the pages are turned. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The card depicts a photograph made by Gloria Wilson of a wall with white painted, handwritten names of fishing boats. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poem was adapted from listings of ships by Fishing News. The card lists the specifications of three ships, Swanella, Sweet Promise, and Swift. Sweet Promise is printed in bold type as the poem for the title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This card reproduces a quote from Catherine Millet, an editor of Art Press in Paris who was strongly against Finlay's commission for the city of Paris because of her perception that Finlay was a Nazi or Nazi sympathizer. Her statement which appeared in Art Press is reprinted on this card, "It is commonplace to remember that Nazi ideology fed on neo-classicism and pantheism." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poem consists of an array of names for Scottish fishing ships presumably arranged while anchored and fishing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is an imagined admonishment from Robespierre to Catherine Millet and Jonathan Hirschfeld dealing with their adverse criticism of Finlay's proposed commission for the city of Paris. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poem consists of a quotation by Mathier commenting on Robespierre. It is printed in an italicized white text on a black background. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poem consists of two quotes attributed to Herbert Read and Claude Chimerique. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This depicts the front cover of a contemporary magazine which was also the inflammatory daily journal edited by Marat during the French revolution, "Ami du peuple." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

In this polemic, Finlay attacks Jonathan Cape, the publisher of "National Follies." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This booklet consists of a listing of the calling initials of Scottish fishing boats in alphabetical arrangements. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a quotation from Jean-Paul Marat as an imagined admonishment to Michel Blum and Yves Hayat for their rejection of Finlay's commission for the city of Paris. The poem reads, "Paris is the sink of all vices. And its inhabitants claim they are free! They should not flatter themselves; to be free it is necessary to have judgement, courage, virtues......" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.