The book and exhibition consisted of photographs of Finlay's garden. The Sackners visited the garden in 1982 and September 2004. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The print depicts toy sailing ships on water with brown sails. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Theme is the birth and death of Persephone, daughter of Zeus and Demeter who is the personification of spring; hence the use of flowers in the images. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This depicts an image of Xmas Star, a fishing boat, with a listing of its Port Letters, Fishing Numbers, Radio Call Sign, Net Tonnage, and Gross Tonnage. With the exception of the name Xmas Star printed in red, the remainder of the image is printed in black. In this unique version, the image is printed on much heavier stock paper than the original print. The inscription on verso reads, reprint from the Wild Hawthorn Press April 1969. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is an image of Xmas Star, a fishing boat, with a listing of its Port Letters, Fishing Numbers, Radio Call Sign, Net Tonnage, and Gross Tonnage. With the exception of the name Xnas Star printed in red, the remainder of the image is printed in black. Printed at the lower right is "Wild Hawthorne Press April 1969. The Sackner Archive holds a smaller version of this print. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Designated as xtra pages from da levy anthology. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The watercolor depicts four ceramic, varied colored sail shapes with numbers from Scottish sail boats. The signature is Michael Harvey's but he has also printed Susan Goodricke's name adjacent to his. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The ink drawings provide construction details of four ceramic varied colored sail shapes with numbers from Scottish sail boats. One drawing is vertical and one drawing is horizontal. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This depicts two adjacent, brown colored, ceramic or concrete, vertical slabs lettered The Water's Hours with levels drawn in blue & denoted with Roman numerals and The Sky's Hours with strokes of a sundial drawn in blue & denoted with Roman numerals, respectively. In Oct 1973, Harvey writes to Finlay with descriptions of proposals for the Portsmith City Art Project, viz., Water's & Sky's Hours and Numbered Sails. Finlay replied within a week with minor modifications prior to their submission into the competition. He adds a note of encouragement to Harvey, "So the question is, who will get the Third Prize (As we have won the First and Second)." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Printed by Stellar Press. Deals with the ideas of Rousseau on nature that formed the ethical and political behavior of the leaders of the French Revolution. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

A large grainy photographic portrait of Eric Satie is the center image with the words "Real I" drawn in three dimensions at the top and "Sing" at the bottom. The title can also be pronounced "realizing." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The message deals with enlisting help for Finlay's despute with the local tax collectors. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The introductory section of the book consists of three pages of aphorisms dealing with gardening by Ian Hamilton Finlay. This is followed by 29 black and white photographs of Little Sparta by Gillanders. Then Alec Finlay writes a brief essay on the garden and its visual challenge to photography. Gillanders who photographed the garden for this book conducts an interview about the project with Ian Hamilton Finlay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The image on each print depicts a different colored image of a boat rudder.The word rudder in various languages is printed at the bottom of the page i.e.remo, ror, ruder, timo, roder, styri. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

These drawings were done for a sundial sculpture to be made from Portland Stone and Westmorland Slate. The completed sculpture, Umbris Solis, was installed in the National Galleries of Scotland. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.