Charles van Sandwyk A Selection of Neighbourly Birds of the New World (Canada) hand coloured etchings, limited edition
Charles Noel van Sandwyk
A Selection of Neighbourly Birds of the New World (Canada)
Illustrated with nine hand coloured etchings by the author.
Cloth covered book in a matching cloth cover slipcase.
Unpaginated. 10” x 8”
Vancouver, BC, 1987.
The typography in the book was designed and printed in handset 18 pt. Cloister and hadriano capitals, on a Vandercook proofing press by Denise Carson Wilde at Winter Lily Press.
The etchings were printed from the original intaglio plates on a nineteenth century Keltons Son press and hand coloured with watercolours by van Sandwyk. One etching is inlaid on the cover, the others are on separate pages interleaved with text pages.
The paper is Somerset 100 percent rag and the book was bound by Rasmussen Hand Bindery. The endpapers are marbled.
One hundred copies of the book were published in Vancouver in the spring of 1987. In addition 26 copies of the book lettered A-Z were produced as an author's edition of which this copy is lettered S.
He experimented with copper plate etchings as a teen, and later studied commercial art at Capilano College. At age 19, he traveled to Fiji and develped a deep connection with the South Pacific. For a number of years he spent several months annually on the tiny island of Tavewa, five hours by boat from Fiji’s main island of Viti Levu. Some of van Sandwyk’s paintings hang in the National Library of Canada, as well as in seeral important private collections. He is the writer and illustrator of several books, including The Parade to Paradise, How to See Fairies, A Selection of Neighbourly Birds of the New World (Canada), and Sketches from the Dream Island of Birds. He has provided illustrations for Folio Society editions of The Blue Fairy Book and The Wind in the Willows, and a Limited Centenary Edition of Wind in the Willows. His book, How to See Fairies, received its own Folio Society edition in 2018.
Book is in excellent condition. The slipcover has some fading, see photo.
Ships free.
Charles Noel van Sandwyk
A Selection of Neighbourly Birds of the New World (Canada)
Illustrated with nine hand coloured etchings by the author.
Cloth covered book in a matching cloth cover slipcase.
Unpaginated. 10” x 8”
Vancouver, BC, 1987.
The typography in the book was designed and printed in handset 18 pt. Cloister and hadriano capitals, on a Vandercook proofing press by Denise Carson Wilde at Winter Lily Press.
The etchings were printed from the original intaglio plates on a nineteenth century Keltons Son press and hand coloured with watercolours by van Sandwyk. One etching is inlaid on the cover, the others are on separate pages interleaved with text pages.
The paper is Somerset 100 percent rag and the book was bound by Rasmussen Hand Bindery. The endpapers are marbled.
One hundred copies of the book were published in Vancouver in the spring of 1987. In addition 26 copies of the book lettered A-Z were produced as an author's edition of which this copy is lettered S.
He experimented with copper plate etchings as a teen, and later studied commercial art at Capilano College. At age 19, he traveled to Fiji and develped a deep connection with the South Pacific. For a number of years he spent several months annually on the tiny island of Tavewa, five hours by boat from Fiji’s main island of Viti Levu. Some of van Sandwyk’s paintings hang in the National Library of Canada, as well as in seeral important private collections. He is the writer and illustrator of several books, including The Parade to Paradise, How to See Fairies, A Selection of Neighbourly Birds of the New World (Canada), and Sketches from the Dream Island of Birds. He has provided illustrations for Folio Society editions of The Blue Fairy Book and The Wind in the Willows, and a Limited Centenary Edition of Wind in the Willows. His book, How to See Fairies, received its own Folio Society edition in 2018.
Book is in excellent condition. The slipcover has some fading, see photo.
Ships free.
Charles Noel van Sandwyk
A Selection of Neighbourly Birds of the New World (Canada)
Illustrated with nine hand coloured etchings by the author.
Cloth covered book in a matching cloth cover slipcase.
Unpaginated. 10” x 8”
Vancouver, BC, 1987.
The typography in the book was designed and printed in handset 18 pt. Cloister and hadriano capitals, on a Vandercook proofing press by Denise Carson Wilde at Winter Lily Press.
The etchings were printed from the original intaglio plates on a nineteenth century Keltons Son press and hand coloured with watercolours by van Sandwyk. One etching is inlaid on the cover, the others are on separate pages interleaved with text pages.
The paper is Somerset 100 percent rag and the book was bound by Rasmussen Hand Bindery. The endpapers are marbled.
One hundred copies of the book were published in Vancouver in the spring of 1987. In addition 26 copies of the book lettered A-Z were produced as an author's edition of which this copy is lettered S.
He experimented with copper plate etchings as a teen, and later studied commercial art at Capilano College. At age 19, he traveled to Fiji and develped a deep connection with the South Pacific. For a number of years he spent several months annually on the tiny island of Tavewa, five hours by boat from Fiji’s main island of Viti Levu. Some of van Sandwyk’s paintings hang in the National Library of Canada, as well as in seeral important private collections. He is the writer and illustrator of several books, including The Parade to Paradise, How to See Fairies, A Selection of Neighbourly Birds of the New World (Canada), and Sketches from the Dream Island of Birds. He has provided illustrations for Folio Society editions of The Blue Fairy Book and The Wind in the Willows, and a Limited Centenary Edition of Wind in the Willows. His book, How to See Fairies, received its own Folio Society edition in 2018.
Book is in excellent condition. The slipcover has some fading, see photo.
Ships free.
