Tree Whispers
VAN SANDWYK, Charles
Tree Whispers
North Vancouver: Savuti Press, 2015
8vo., brown sewn card wraps with integrated dust cover in dark green; onlaid watercolour label showing a wise owl sitting on a branch with calligraphic titles; decorative gilt borders showing various tree folk; a further image of an anthropomorphised tree in gilt to lower cover; calligraphically printed throughout in various colours; frontis etching behind mounted spiderwebbed tissue guard; pages of various sizes throughout, printed on a variety of coloured paper stocks including two semi-translucent with text and images in full colour showing tree folk, owls and stag beetles; fine.
Deluxe edition, one of just 120 copies, this copy no. 86 with the frontis etching signed and numbered by the author/illustrator in pencil. The first 50 copies were reserved for patrons of the High Branch Society.
A wonderful story, in verse, recounting the mystery of trees, which have much to tell us. From The Bible, to Shakespeare to Tolkien, trees have been anthropomorphised for centuries. The Gospel of Mark speaks of "Men as trees, walking", and perhaps most closely to the style of van Sandwyk’s drawings are those of Arthur Rackham, who portrayed them as "bristly, twisted, anthropomorphic trees that appear as the guises of Elves and other supernatural beings." Here, the illustrator brings them even more to life; reading books, strumming harps, and spinning spider webs, all in his unique and intricate style.
“The ghostly trees
Whisper forest tales
Upon pages
Made of their being”
Scarce.
VAN SANDWYK, Charles
Tree Whispers
North Vancouver: Savuti Press, 2015
8vo., brown sewn card wraps with integrated dust cover in dark green; onlaid watercolour label showing a wise owl sitting on a branch with calligraphic titles; decorative gilt borders showing various tree folk; a further image of an anthropomorphised tree in gilt to lower cover; calligraphically printed throughout in various colours; frontis etching behind mounted spiderwebbed tissue guard; pages of various sizes throughout, printed on a variety of coloured paper stocks including two semi-translucent with text and images in full colour showing tree folk, owls and stag beetles; fine.
Deluxe edition, one of just 120 copies, this copy no. 86 with the frontis etching signed and numbered by the author/illustrator in pencil. The first 50 copies were reserved for patrons of the High Branch Society.
A wonderful story, in verse, recounting the mystery of trees, which have much to tell us. From The Bible, to Shakespeare to Tolkien, trees have been anthropomorphised for centuries. The Gospel of Mark speaks of "Men as trees, walking", and perhaps most closely to the style of van Sandwyk’s drawings are those of Arthur Rackham, who portrayed them as "bristly, twisted, anthropomorphic trees that appear as the guises of Elves and other supernatural beings." Here, the illustrator brings them even more to life; reading books, strumming harps, and spinning spider webs, all in his unique and intricate style.
“The ghostly trees
Whisper forest tales
Upon pages
Made of their being”
Scarce.
VAN SANDWYK, Charles
Tree Whispers
North Vancouver: Savuti Press, 2015
8vo., brown sewn card wraps with integrated dust cover in dark green; onlaid watercolour label showing a wise owl sitting on a branch with calligraphic titles; decorative gilt borders showing various tree folk; a further image of an anthropomorphised tree in gilt to lower cover; calligraphically printed throughout in various colours; frontis etching behind mounted spiderwebbed tissue guard; pages of various sizes throughout, printed on a variety of coloured paper stocks including two semi-translucent with text and images in full colour showing tree folk, owls and stag beetles; fine.
Deluxe edition, one of just 120 copies, this copy no. 86 with the frontis etching signed and numbered by the author/illustrator in pencil. The first 50 copies were reserved for patrons of the High Branch Society.
A wonderful story, in verse, recounting the mystery of trees, which have much to tell us. From The Bible, to Shakespeare to Tolkien, trees have been anthropomorphised for centuries. The Gospel of Mark speaks of "Men as trees, walking", and perhaps most closely to the style of van Sandwyk’s drawings are those of Arthur Rackham, who portrayed them as "bristly, twisted, anthropomorphic trees that appear as the guises of Elves and other supernatural beings." Here, the illustrator brings them even more to life; reading books, strumming harps, and spinning spider webs, all in his unique and intricate style.
“The ghostly trees
Whisper forest tales
Upon pages
Made of their being”
Scarce.