FINLAY, Ian Hamilton (1925-2006). Glasgow Beasts, an a Burd ... Haw, an Inseks, An, Aw, a Fush, [Edinburgh], The Wild Flounder Press, 1962, 8vo, later cloth. Second edition. With an original autograph "concrete poem" on card, [?]signed by Finlay. (2)

FINLAY, Ian Hamilton (1925-2006).  Glasgow Beasts, an a Burd ... Haw, an Inseks, An, Aw, a Fush ... a wee buik fir big weans. [Edinburgh:] The Wild Flounder Press, February 1962. 8vo (171 x 115mm). Printed on cream paper, text and "papercut" illustrations by John Picking and Pete McGinn printed in orange (some light spotting to the title and final blank leaf, some very light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Later green buckram, the upper cover crudely lettered in gilt. Provenance: "Mary Ha'" ([?]signature at the head of the title). Second edition. Included in the lot is an original autograph "concrete poem" titled "the horizon of holland", [?]signed by Ian Hamilton Finlay, on a piece of white card (102 x 152mm), lined in red and blue on the verso. "Concrete Poetry" is "... a term used to describe a kind of experimental poetry developed in the 1950s and flourishing in the 1960s, which dwells primarily on the visual aspects of the poem ... Concrete poets experiment with typography, graphics, the 'ideogram concept', computer poems, collage, etc., and in varying degrees acknowledge influence from Dada, Hans Arp, Schwitters, Malevich, and other visual artists. Ian Hamilton Finlay, one of the leading Scottish exponents, expresses his own affinity with 17th-cent. emblems and poems such as George Herbert's 'Easter Wings', which use the shape as well as the sense of a poem to convey meaning" (The Oxford Companion to English Literature, ed. Drabble, 1985).