How to See Fairies

This illustrated collection gathers short fairy pieces in verse and prose: instructions for seeing the little people at night or dawn, a pocket guide to types such as flower, autumn, and lamplighter fairies, and brief tales of a fairy market, a Christmas among them, and related woodland figures. The text treats fairies as neighbours in woods and gardens rather than as a single plotted quest. Pictures and decorative borders carry as much of the world as the words. The book is a small anthology of fairy sketches, not a novel and not a folklore study.

Bound in colour blocked light brown cloth with a colour printed inset paper label. 72 integrated colour and 30 black & white illustrations plus a 3 page fold-out. Printed endpapers. Gilt pattern printed red slipcase. In 2024, signed by Charles van Sandwyk.