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The book depicts impressionistic watercolors of poems mostly adapted from classic literature on tree plaques or as sculptures among the trees. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The print by Ron Costley illustrates the poem Porphyry, "On Abstinence From Animal Food," which has been translated by Thomas Taylor. This print commemorates the philosophy of Porphyry 233-304 whose original name was Malchus who was a Greek Neo-Platonist philosopher, born in Syria; disciple and biographer of Plotinus. He was a proponent of vegetarianism, e.g., "But to deliver animals to be slaughtered and cooked, and thus be filled with murder, not for the sake of nutriment and satisfying the wants of nature, but making pleasure and gluttony the end of such conduct, is transcendently iniquitous and dire. He who abstains from anything animate ... will be much more careful not to injure those of his own species. For he who loves the genus will not hate any species of animals. And is it not absurd, since we see that many of our own species live from sense alone, but do not possess intellect and reason; and since we also see that many of them surpass the most terrible of wild beasts...

Scope and Contents The print by Ron Costley illustrates the poem Porphyry, "On Abstinence From Animal Food," which has been translated by Thomas Taylor. This print commemorates the philosophy of Porphyry 233-304 whose original name was Malchus who was a Greek Neo-Platonist philosopher, born in Syria; disciple and biographer of Plotinus. He was a proponent of vegetarianism, e.g., "But to deliver animals to be slaughtered and cooked, and thus be filled with murder, not for the sake of nutriment and satisfying the wants of nature, but making pleasure and gluttony the end of such conduct, is transcendently iniquitous and dire. He who abstains from anything animate ... will be much more careful not to injure those of his own species. For he who loves the genus will not hate any species of animals. And is it not absurd, since we see that many of our own species live from sense alone, but do not possess intellect and reason; and since we also see that many of them surpass the most terrible of wild beasts...

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Consists of a proof copy of the poem on a loose sheet with handwritten corrections to the poem by Finlay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The cover depicts a line drawing of the prow of a ship. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The cover depicts a line drawing of the prow of a ship. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The pages depict four line drawings of a ship prow and a linocut listing Roman numerals from XIX to X. A card with the same title held by the Sackner Archive is a linocut taken from one of the pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Announces the closing of the Garden and the Garden Temple as a result of Little Sparta's War with the tax collectors of Strathclyde Region. The Reed-Pipe image is an air cooled machine gun. Finlay's political aphorisms printed in a caption from More Detached Sentences surrounding this picture poem include 'To change the interpretation of law, is to change the law,' and 'Democracy celebrates confusion and calls it freedom' among others. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This work was presumably for a unique piece. The seven drawings were mounted on one sheet of paper and the two drawings on another sheet of paper. They consist of slightly different calligraphic styles for these two words. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a design for a wall ceramic. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a design for a wall ceramic. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The word "Schiff," signifying ship, is printed in stylized calligraphy to resemble the shape of a ship and its reflection in the water. Indexbooks WEB 2011: "One of an edition of 350 signed numbered copies, printed by PKM studios, of a 2 x 12 inch lithographed triple foldout thin card strip with the word "Schiff" in a typeface so that the symmetrical upside down repeat, i.e., reflection, of itself makes for a reflection of itself (as if it were a ship). That's metonymy? Part for whole? Nah. More like metaphor, the word for the thing, i.e., substitution." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The word "Schiff," signifying ship, is printed in stylized calligraphy to resemble the shape of a ship and its reflection in the water. ndexbooks WEB 2011: "One of an edition of 350 signed numbered copies, printed by PKM studios, of a 2 x 12 inch lithographed triple foldout thin card strip with the word "Schiff" in a typeface so that the symmetrical upside down repeat, i.e., reflection, of itself makes for a reflection of itself (as if it were a ship). That's metonymy? Part for whole? Nah. More like metaphor, the word for the thing, i.e., substitution." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The image depicts a random arrangement of ship's identification numbers placed within a fraction of a circular shape. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The image depicts a random arrangement of ship's numbers placed within a circular shape. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The image depicts a random arrangement of ship's identification numbers placed within a circular shape. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The essay written by Stephen Bann on the back inside folder explains the metaphor of grouping designs of hulls of sailing ships like sea shells in a display case. Proctor is a ship designer and Costley the artist who made this print. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Contrasts the usual and nautical meanings of the words, Bark and Snow. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.