The book consists of photographic reproductions of Finlay's picture poem drawings and carvings on stone, viz., drawings by Finlay with Ron Costley & reliefs carved in Portland stone, with John Andrew. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a poster of the same image of the print in the Sackner Archive printed for the Cambridge Poetry Festival at the Kettle's Yard Gallery. The bottom edge contains details of the exhibition. Finlay cites two references to this image as follows: Ovid's Metamorphoses and Wittkower's The Sculptures of Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Historical Research Unit, Uniforms of the SS. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

In this version of the print the figures of Apollo in red and Daphne in green are combined into a green tree. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

In this version of the print the figures of Apollo and Daphne are outlined in black and are combined into an outlined tree all against the image of a drawn black brick wall. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a card printed with a cut-out that is designed to make a paper drum with drum sticks. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This print depicts the word "Laconic" (terse) inscribed on a guillotine blade. Beneath it on the red background is inscribed the phrase "Homage to Neo-Classicism." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The title has been inscribed on a guillotine blade and underneath it the inscription "Death to the Strathclyde Region" is inscribed on the black background, a reference to Finlay's dispute with the local tax collectors. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

There is no reference made to this book in the various Finlay bibliographies but the the same images printed on identical paper are bound into the exhibition catalog, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Serpentine Gallery, London, 1977, a book also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This depicts 10 line drawn, picture poems printed in red and black, one to a page that involve a war theme. A complete reprinting of this book appeared as a section of the catalog for Finlay's exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery (1977). Unable to locate an entry for this book, which was printed by the Stellar Press, in the Finlay bibliographies. -- 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.