The cover image is a color photograph of three blue lemons painted with yellow fishing ship numbers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Depicts a flowering wildrose plant, a symbol used in the French Republican calendar that was established in 1794. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The image on this card is a black and white drawing of a harbor scene in Brittany with nuns in the foreground after a painting by Maurice Dennis. The one-word poem is 'litany." Finlay quotes Caroline Boyle-Turner, "The painters felt that the peasants' lives had not changed since medieval times. They were also fascinated by the mystical character of the Bretons Catholicism." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Image consists of a row of sail boats, the first with full sail. As the row of boats progresses, less and less sail is unfurled. The caption has been taken from a quotation by Proclus in his Elements of Theology. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Jo Hincks did the linocuts illustrating Finlay's one-word poems that appear, one to each page. Harry Gilonis provided the commentary on the poems and the concept of the one-word poem. He explains the background behind the Nautical terms employed by Finlay as the one-word poem relating to the various titles. This book was published on the occasion of an exhibition that was designed by Finlay and Simig. Colin Sackett laid out the typography. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The image on this card is a black and white drawing of persons rowing in a lake. The names listed in the poem are the Hincks family. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The image and caption were adapted from Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The cover depicts a drawing of a black (not blue) sailboat with the inside of the hull printed in yellow. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The image on this card is a sailboat while the poem deals with Utopian ideas. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The card depicts a watercolor rendition of poppies captioned with "the Phrygian Flower." Phhrygia refers to an ancient country in central and NW Asia Minor. A Phrygian cap was a soft conical cap associated with the liberty cap in the late 18th and early 19th centuries . Finlay draws attention to poppies as a metaphor for the liberty cap. This card deals with a metaphor for the French revolution. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poem on this card describes the passage of a butterfly in flight. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.