The book comprises 22 black and white photographs of varied numbers of inner toilet paper rolls inscribed with port letters and fishing numbers drawn by John Andrew. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The card depicts a grid of carrier-based aircraft with folded wings. The caption "Lullaby" signifies that the airplanes are not prepared for "sleeping" or when flying and attacking an enemy ship destroy it or put it to "sleep." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The image on the card depicts a line drawing of a sail boat. Finlay defines the title, Mirror, as a boat we can see ourselves in. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The image depicts a silhouette of a submarine conning tower. The card was never distributed in commerce. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

A bollard is a thick low post on a wharf which is used to moor ships with a rope. This book depicts bollards for a decoration of a Scottish Shopping Centre, The Gyle - Edinburgh. Reproductions of drawings are depicted one to a page. Each is inscribed with the name of a ship which also alludes to a poem or quotation generally from classical literature as indicated in footnotes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a b&w photograph from Stonypath garden that depicts a carved stone inscribed "See Poussin Hear Lorrain." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This card consisting of a b&w photograph depicts a carved stone submarine in Stonypath garden. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Stephan Bann provides an explanation of the poem in the accompanying leaflet as follows. Thermidor was the month in the French Revolutionary calendar when the summer heat was its most intense, and the grain at its ripest. It was also the month, in 1794, when Robespierre and his followers met their deaths at the guillotine. In the image of this poem, the abrupt cleavage of the word, THER MIDOR, and of the figured sheaf of flowers, suggest the termination of the revolution in its Jacobian sense. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.