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[Charles Van Sandwyk Fine Arts]. New. Hand-bound book. Blue wrappers with metallic sheen, wrapped around maroon card. Gilt illustrations on endpapers. Single hand-sewn signature. Gilt, black and copper lettering and decoration with tipped-on full-colour illustration to front cover. With 18 full-colour illustrations from watercolour paintings tipped-in throughout surrounded by illustration decoration, accompanied by decorative script (one of the illustrations folds-out). Includes a separate card with tipped-on illustration containing a write-up about the book.

[Charles Van Sandwyk Fine Arts]. Used - Very Good. Hand-bound book. Blue wrappers with metallic sheen, wrapped around maroon card. Gilt illustrations on endpapers. Single hand-sewn signature. Gilt, black and copper lettering and decoration with tipped-on full-colour illustration to front cover. With 18 full-colour illustrations from watercolour paintings tipped-in throughout surrounded by illustration decoration, accompanied by decorative script (one of the illustrations folds-out). Includes a separate card with tipped-on illustration containing a write-up about the book.

Vancouver, B. C,: Charles Van Sandwyk Fine Arts, 2005. unpaginated. Oblong octavo. Illustrated with 18 tipped in coloured plates of birds, plants and fish. Original metalic brown wrappers with copper and gilt birds of paradise, black and gilt lettering and a mounted coloured illustration of an island on front cover. Decorative gilt and maroon endpapers. A beautifully illustrated book. Charles Van Sandwuk is a Vancouver artist and author who has attained renowned status and won numerous awards as a fantasy artisit.. First Edition. Stapled Soft Cover. Very Good-Near Fine.

2005. [North Vancouver; The Fairy Press.] Anno 2005. Landscape royal 8vo. Original card covers with a beautiful pictorial wrap-around jacket, lettered and panelled in burnished silver, copper, and black surrounding an onlaid pictorial plate, with elaborate patterned gilt endpapers; the book hand-sewn, as issued; pp. [28] on variously coloured card, with text throughout in calligraphic font; a feast of beautiful design and illustration with a total of 18 fine tipped-in coloured plates of various dimensions surrounded by panelled borders, designs and maps printed in colour and line and heightened in gilt, including one unusual 3-panel folding plate; a fine copy. First edition in the larger format. A glorious book, hand-produced to meticulous standards, describing a dreamlike island world of fantastical creatures and birds: "I am the sketchbook belonging to Charles van Sandwyk. I travelled through a dream - and returned with many tales to tell". This copy signed in ink by the artist Charles… Read More