The poem title on the background reads: " The Pun Of My Aunt" and the poem reads:" le superiority de standing - le curious arrangement - le shining; de viveur. - the hard monde of separation, - la world de conversation fresh - la lady, beautiful de rejoicing - la porte de douce trance cherie, - un swell chef de sometimes - o ma british douane - mon man le mistake." The original of this print is also held in the Sackner Archive that depicts the same image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a mainly an ink hatched drawing that was intended for Ciaran Carson's book of poems, Opera et Cetera, Wake Forest Press, 1996, but not utilized in the printed edition. The text is from A Human Document by Mallock. Carson's book is also held by the Sackner Archive. This small fragament contains the following poem: "monsieur art sage monsieur h - dix-huit luding I heard him claim our name - ch - hc - reve omph enderi St ! - tribute to h - ink beau-payin you with his tongue wit." The protagonist in this poem, H C, is Henri Chopin. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The text reads "death? - is this not the sunshine? - lacing, playing a vagrant quesion- to elbow aside his own death - soon a sick shadow passed the air - elbow the probability." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The text reads "Just take Goothe or Horace Duke - to show poetic life - no example, with music of Sir Walter Wellington - what a trifling locamotive - a butterfly gives meaning to miles of industry --poetry --let mego." The image is three silhouetted figures. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The prints have been removed from the folder and placed in a mat, two to a mat. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner. Items were removed from matting and were returned to the original folder. Added: CEND.

The image of this print appears to be fragments of a British flag. The poem reads, "searching for the complete extreme picture - he had lately done enumerated horse flesh; and water billiards - English Art." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poem reads " A most magnificent kind of woners catalogue - DOCUMDNT the universe; and vanish - doumenti--libri----multa--admirandi! - at his bedside - all the reading of the thing with the stamp of art. tp ms and rs." Here Phillips is prising the Sackners' catalogue of their collection of concrete and visual poetry(1986) for which he also designed the cover. The same poem with a different image as a print with only 'tp' for Hansjorg Mayer publications catalogue is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poem reads, "Her man - free and tender days of Poetry - pay day of happiness; and love - Tickets ready - for Liverpool and expectancy - the glimmering shores of yesterday receding." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poem reads "the gallery of a hundred years of a thousand is in every street - art in the street covered deep with pictures vivified". Includes part of a map cut out. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

One of the prints depicts most of the lines obliterated with brown paint and the other one with white paint. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This booklet was written for a workshop in a grade school class and is a second edition of the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a colored drawing that was intended for Ciaran Carson's book of poems, Opera et Cetera, Wake Forest Press, 1996, but not utilized in the printed edition. The printed page is Carson's poetry. Carson's book is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a gouache drawing that was intended for Ciaran Carson's book of poems, Opera et Cetera, Wake Forest Press, 1996, but not utilized in the printed edition. The text is from Carson's poetry. Carson's book is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This print is one of the proofs for the first edition of Phillips' Dante's Inferno. The completed prints were destroyed in a fire at the Editions Alecto studio and never published as an edition. Phillips subsequently redid the prints in a different manner although he borrowed some of the imagery from the first edition. The prints in a limited edition and a trade edition book were published by Phillips and Thames and Hudson, respectively. A text of this image reads, "Semiramis & Dido & Cleopatra & Helen of Troy & Achilles & Paris & Tristan Und Isole De & Romeo and Juliet & Anna Karenina & Emma." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This print is one of the proofs for the first edition of Phillips' Dante's Inferno. The completed prints were destroyed in a fire at the Editions Alecto studio and never published as an edition. Phillips subsequently redid the prints in a different manner although he borrowed some of the imagery from the first edition. The prints in a limited edition and a trade edition book were published by Phillips and Thames and Hudson, respectively.

This print is one of the proofs for the first edition of Phillips' Dante's Inferno. The completed prints were destroyed in a fire at the Editions Alecto studio and never published as an edition. Phillips subsequently redid the prints in a different manner although he borrowed some of the imagery from the first edition. The prints in a limited edition and a trade edition book were published by Phillips and Thames and Hudson, respectively.

This print is one of the proofs for the first edition of Phillips' Dante's Inferno. The completed prints were destroyed in a fire at the Editions Alecto studio and never published as an edition. Phillips subsequently redid the prints in a different manner although he borrowed some of the imagery from the first edition. The prints in a limited edition and a trade edition book were published by Phillips and Thames and Hudson, respectively. A Humument text of this image reads, "falter / drop / fall" "silent, lost / and helpless / sailing" "boat of dreams, and / lost / fear" "boat which is the dream / wreck Come / in" "for / none / return / from the Chance / in themselves / contained" -- Source of annotation: CEND.

This print is one of the proofs for the first edition of Phillips' Dante's Inferno. The completed prints were destroyed in a fire at the Editions Alecto studio and never published as an edition. Phillips subsequently redid the prints in a different manner although he borrowed some of the imagery from the first edition. The prints in a limited edition and a trade edition book were published by Phillips and Thames and Hudson, respectively.

This print is one of the proofs for the first edition of Phillips' Dante's Inferno. The completed prints were destroyed in a fire at the Editions Alecto studio and never published as an edition. Phillips subsequently redid the prints in a different manner although he borrowed some of the imagery from the first edition. The prints in a limited edition and a trade edition book were published by Phillips and Thames and Hudson, respectively. This print illustrates the canto in which Dore depicts Charon rowing a boat in the river Acheron in a lake with Phillips' comments from A Humument with the words, "bitter boating." This work was shown at the Sackner Archive during Art Basel Miami December 2001. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This print is one of the proofs for the first edition of Phillips' Dante's Inferno. The completed prints were destroyed in a fire at the Editions Alecto studio and never published as an edition. Phillips subsequently redid the prints in a different manner although he borrowed some of the imagery from the first edition. The prints in a limited edition and a trade edition book were published by Phillips and Thames and Hudson, respectively. The print depicts a bust of Dante with a Humument text that begins, " six now, - with him there, the foremost in Europe - that poets of poets..." This work was shown at the Sackner Archive during Art Basel Miami December 2001. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.