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VAN SANDWYK, Charles Here Follows a Collection of Little People Common to the Natural Forest Vancouver: Charles van Sandwyk Fine Arts, [2018] 8vo, sparkly-brown card wraps with integrated sewn marbled dustwrapper; onlaid paper label bordered in red, with title in black and a watercolour illustration showing a dancing owl; pp. [iv], with two colourful illustrations, a sepia reproduction of The original guide to the little folk found neatly folded beneath a Toadstool forest in 1627 ; marbled paper envelope housing the recent enlarged edition , folding to show twelve colour portraits on both sides; fine. First edition thus, signed by van Sandwyk to p. [i]. The book was first issued in a very rare edition in 1983. The portraits of fairy folk are diverse, and show some holding lamps, barrels and baskets of eggs, others playing lutes or carrying letters, and one wearing a particularly fetching mushroom hat.