How to See Fairies
This is van Sandwyk’s indispensable guide to fairies, including The Fairy Market – an endearing story of little folk gathering for gossip and good cheer at the food market – and a Pocket Guide to the Little People, which identifies the equipment needed to search for fairies, tips on how to spot them and a list of some of their favourite foods. Also revealed are portraits of the magical people, ‘observed unbeknown to themselves during a great journey through the great woods’, including the lamplighter, hornblowers and the bee man and finally, The Fairies’ Christmas recounts festive fairy shenanigans when the author was a child.
The edition showcases van Sandwyk’s delightful characterisations and includes integrated colour illustrations and line drawings – some previously unpublished – as well as hand-drawn borders and page decorations. The cloth binding features an inset label designed by van Sandwyk, which depicts a scene of magical domestic bliss, and the book is presented in a slipcase gold-printed with a pattern created especially for this edition.
About the Author
Charles van Sandwyk was born in South Africa and raised in Canada; he taught himself calligraphy and intaglio printing as a teenager. His first self-published book appeared when he was just 20, and won a national award. Since then his work has been archived by the National Library of Canada and treasured by private collectors across the world. Van Sandwyk has produced illustrations for the Folio editions of The Blue Fairy Book, The Wind in the Willows and How to See Fairies (which he both wrote and illustrated). A limited edition of Alice in Wonderland, illustrated by Charles van Sandwyk, was published by The Folio Society to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the first edition. It sold out rapidly.