The edition size was not specified but probably was 100 copies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a review of the Seagram corporate art collection installed in Ralph Erskine's Ark building that includes a work of Ian Hamilton Finlay, "Sea Flower." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a review of the Seagram corporate art collection installed in Ralph Erskine's Ark building that includes a work of Ian Hamilton Finlay, "Sea Flower." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Printed by the Parrett Press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The inscription around the pool is taken from the "Poem on Nature" by Empedokles, the Presocriatic philosopher. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This project is an abbreviated Doric temple with an inscription, "Aeterna Templa Caeli," the everlasting temple in the sky (cited by Varro in his De Lingua Latina). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This proposal for Bernhard and Marie Starkmann depicts an oar wrapped in a fishing net stuck into a mound of rocks with the caption, "The Wanderings of Ulysses." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Also designated A Morning Star Folio 2/4 December 1991, a series edited by Alec Finlay. Not found in Fnlay's book of prints 1963-1997. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poem is inscribed on gates to the flower garden in the foreground as "Little Fields, Long Horizons," in the midground as "Little Fields Long, For Horizons" and in the background as "Horizons Long, For Little Fields." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Lilly-cobbled refers to the abundant water-lilies that cover a section of the pool with their floating leaves in garden setting. This garden proposal was made for Alfred Richterich, Laufen, Switzerland. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This card proposes an object "suited to a Situation commanding an extensive Prospect" to be viewed from within William Shenstone's (18th century) The Leasowes garden. It is an obelisk that mocks a commission by Sadam Hussein for the Iraq super-gun from parts inadvertently forged by Walter Somers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Finlay explains the poem in the print Neoclassical Thaumaturgy as follows. Thaumaturgy means wonder working; an aspect of the old classical religion. the 'gods' which fly faster than sound are present-day warplanes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This proposal includes an inscribed garden bench and a tree plaque based upon a quote from classical literature. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book and the commission to Finlay were dedicated to Diana, Princess of Wales by the Board of Trustees and Staff of the Serpentine Gallery. The first fold-out page consists of the architectural layout and the second a print enumerating trees in the area arranged as a mandala dedicated to Diana in its center. The commission itself consisted of poetic engravings for eight benches and a tree-plaque placed in the meadow around the Sepentine. The captions on these objects are brief sentences adapted from writings, rendered in Latin and English, on Arcadia by Virgil. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Finlay's proposal for inscription of a bench in Shenstone's garden (1714-1763) is based upon Didsley's (1764) description as it was in Shenstone's time. The inscription reads, "Here the path begins to ascend beneath a depth of shale, by the sideof which is a small bubbling rill, either forming little penisulas, rolling over peebles, or falling down small cascades, all under cover, and taught to murmur very agreeably." Finlay adds the following comment, "A bench, in our modern gardens, is a thing to be sat upon; in Shenstone's Leasowes it is a thing to be read." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poem to be inscribed as "A Man of Letters R.L.S." on a formal stone with irregular edges is inscribed with a 'one-word poem' and set in the grass within a small grove of birch trees" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.