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Dummy for book, white blank covers, typed, sewn, 24pp, 211 x 149, no title page, but first text in book a quote on Flags, single correction. Small dummy, stiff mustard cardboard covers creased /hinged on top. 16pp, stapled on lhs, hand lettered in ink on cover and on all pages. 'To the initiated' (quote on Flags), pencil markings, 75 x 132, colophon in pencil; SC Tarasque Press, as used in Allotments 1970. Small dummy, stapled, 16pp, 89 x 143, holographic artwork/typography throughout on semi-transparent front page: 'Semblems Emblems' (crossed out), next page: "Semaphor". Dummy on card stock, holographic typography in black pen, "Semaphore", stapled, 7 cards plus back part only of wrapper, card with type size notes, 143 x 89, rust marks from paperclip, pencilled type size markings, colophon: SC Tarasque Press. 15 pieces of artwork/proofs and notes, mostly on cards (postcard sized). 4 sheets from a perforated (on top) notepad with typed and handwritten poems, paperclip. Holographic artwork in ink, 'semaphor', on all four pages of folded sheet. Letter of May 14th, 1968, SC to (unnamed) printer/studio re. Letrasetting, on 'Trent bookshop' headed notepaper. British Isles Price List of Belgian Company, selling (non-toy) balloons, with pencilled addition: 'w luggage plain sailing'.

Pencil drawing torn out of notebook, 'Lil sleeps above my head' Two typed pages, blue type, torn out of notebook, dated Oct/Nov 1962 and June/July 1963 respectively. Two typed A4 sheets of poems, blue type.

Dummy/script for 'An Appendix of Shaker Furniture', 203 x 128, five sheets folded to make twenty pages, typed with holographic additions/alterations, title page dated '1983', with folded sheet of page lay-out and contents consistent with dummy. Dummy/script for 'Footnotes * to a Manual of Shaker Furniture', 1984, six folded sheets of paper to make 24 pages, 204 x 166, contents typed, pen drawing to indicate photo to come, three line text, top of page opposite drawing, not used in final version. Manuscript/drafts for poems/texts for this book, bundle of papers of different colours and sizes, 10 items. Further holographic and typed poems in W H Smith Children's Drawing Pad, torn covers, 11 pages of writing (many loose). Complete paste-up of book, 7 sheets of A4. Photocopies from 'Shaker Furniture, the Craftsmanship of an American Communal Sect' with photographs of William F. Winter, the source for the illustration.

First used in Inkwell and Paperweight and finally as 'for Marie Bourget'. Tel-Let No.32. lp, st, ed. 100 Dummy for booklet in slim mauve wrappers, 4pp, unsewn, 160 x 89, typed title on cover: 'for Marie Bourget', interior blank. Dummy for booklet in slim mauve wrappers, 12pp, unsewn, 160 x 89, no title on front cover, poem inside lettered in pencil, notes on estimated costs on last page. Seven stiff cards, effectively in size of (unfolded) sheets of dummies, all printed experimentally in different ways using the spare text, the poem printed blind-embossed, sometimes brushed over using yellow highlighter. Spare blank pieces of paper of type used in dummies. Original drawing and layout of booklet on small piece of paper. Typescript of drafts for Marie Bourget poem. Two A4 sheets with all texts for booklet in larger type. 2 letters from John Martone, 1 reply. 1 x 5 page concertina maquette, with perished tape, 1 x 4 page concertina maquette, with perished tape, and letterpress blind-emboss and colour text also printed letterpress. (See finished book in Section 1).

2 folded sheets of poem. 1folded cover of publication 'A Canticle for Fred Sandback', with paste-up and line spacing's for the poem. Site Gallery installation August 2012, at the time of Printed in Norfolk, but never installed. Later installed in smaller version in Assembridge Nagoya, September 2016