Everything, and where it sails.

A

Achenbach, Oswald, his oils of 1883–84, gently set back in motion Fr.·V

Anchor, set in the word RECORD — what holds when everything else moves VII·Pl.

Avia pervia, the family motto: the trackless ways are passable Fr.

B

Bells, ship's, struck at the reader's own hour; the last dog runs one, two, three, eight foot of every leaf

C

Catchword, the binder's mark: the next gathering named at the foot of the leaf every leaf

Chapbook, this volume, printed — testatine, folios and your marginalia included any leaf, sent to the press

Chart, the course upon it, soundings, marks and the leg not yet run Fr.

Citations, carried whole inside the link, arriving printed in royal VII

Colophon, of this edition — the types, the press, the hands back matter

Curiosity, a ship built of; puts to sea and becomes a rocket II·Pl.

D

Dividers, set in CRAFT — care on one point, repetition on the other III·Pl.

E

Earth, exploded into twelve plates; made whole again by the scroll Fr.

Errata, errors admitted in print, never corrected silently back matter

F

Figures, every one set one word at a time, like type Pl. See also Words.

G

Glosses, marginal, the argument of the paragraph, kept in the margin as the old treatises kept it VII

Good., stamped white on royal, once the word stands in view Fr., the Admission

H

Hand, the reader's, offered over any selected passage: cite it, or write in the margin VII

L

Lighthouse, set in SIGNAL — its whole job is to keep saying one true thing VI·Pl.

Logbook, kept at sea, in plain hand, while nobody knows how the voyage ends VII

M

Marginalia, the reader's own, set in pencil, kept on the reader's shelf alone VII

Match, struck by the scroll; the four wants catch fire Fr., the Admission·Pl.

P

Paintings, living, the sea in them gently moving, the rest kept still Fr.·V

Pigeon, carrier, with the last letter of the book VI, at the end

Plates, the list of, a treatise opens with one; here is this one's front matter

R

Ribbon, the royal marker: the book keeps your place and offers it back Fr., on returning

Rocket, a ship become — printed line by line, exactly as the ship was read II

Rose, the compass, boxing the family motto; also found where the charts end Pl.·off the chart

S

Serpent, one, on one staff — five thousand years of practice IV·Pl.

Stars, hand-set like print, streaming down past the climb: they are still; we are the moving II

V

Veil, the closed cover, honest about its freight; lifts once the volume is truly ready Fr., first landing

W

Wave, the Great, claws, spray and an open hollow — it looks like a wall until you learn to read water V·Pl.·I

Words, the only ink in every figure — see Figures.