The Gnome Trilogy 3: The Gnome Compendium
The Gnome Manuscript has enchanted many curious people around the world with its mixture of myth, magick and folklore, all captured in the wonderful drawings and handwriting by J.H.W. Eldermans. This third and final installment of The Gnome Manuscript, The Gnome Compendium – Exerts of the Works of J.H.W. Eldermans, will focus on the miscellaneous writings concerning ‘little people’ by J.H.W. Eldermans.
Where the first part focused more on culture and habits, the second part on magic concerning gnomes, this part will bring you first hand eye witness accounts of people who actually saw or even were in contact with gnomes. We will look to people associated with gnomes, but also to folklore and mythology and the leftovers, the writings that could not fit any category, but deal with gnomes nevertheless. A fascinating study comes to a surprising conclusion.
Wilmar Taal (1969) is a Dutch cultural historian specialized in history of the occult, Dutch folklore, horror fiction and ‘hidden histories’ of The Netherlands. He has authored four books in Dutch and four in English. He is married and lives with his wife and spoilt rotten cat near Amsterdam and part-time on De Veluwe…
Paperback Edition Gloss laminate cover.
Original Price - £15.50
Standard Hardback Edition a green case binding with gold foil blocking to cover & spine, 90gsm cream paper stock, black end papers, with black head and tail bands.
Original Price - £27.50
Special Edition a limited edition of 125 hand-numbered examples, bound in a brown cloth binding, with gold foil blocking to the front and spine, 90gsm cream stock, black endpapers, with black head and tail bands.
Original Price - £36.50
Size All editions are Royal format 234 x 156mm.
Pagination 224 pages extensively illustrated with drawings by JHW Eldermans from the original Gnome Manuscript and photographs by the author.
