After Glow

VAN SANDWYK, Charles

After Glow 

Vancouver: The Fairy Press, 2008 

Oblong 8vo., cream card wraps, fully decorated with coloured illustrations of plants, insects and fairy folk; sewn binding with decorative rainbow-coloured ribbon; front cover with onlaid maroon label decorated in black and gold; the front and rear covers folding, with tri-fold panorama to front; an additional pp [iv] pages of calligraphic text and illustrations; fold-ins with outer edge untrimmed; fine. 

First edition of this autumnal poem. 

After Glow describes the secret realm of the little people, and the illustrations here show many of those characters eating, drinking generally merrymaking, some wearing masks, and others playing tiny violins and french horns fashioned from flowers.