THE GNOME MANUSCRIPT
Special edition 2019 313pp Troy Books. Profusely illustrated. Brown cloth with designs and titling foiled in gold. Fine.
Ltd. ed. 24/100, signed bookplate tipped onto front endpaper.
THE GNOME GRIMOIRE
Special edition 2021 393pp Troy Books. Profusely illustrated. Brown cloth with designs and titling foiled in gold. Fine.
Ltd. ed. 64/125, signed bookplate tipped onto front endpaper.
THE GNOME COMPENDIUM
Special edition 2022 223pp Troy Books. Profusely illustrated. Brown cloth with designs and titling foiled in gold. Fine.
Ltd. ed. 40/125, signed bookplate tipped onto front endpaper.
 
Uniform three volume set. In 2000, the mysterious Dutch ‘Richel-Eldermans collection’ was donated to The Museum of Witchcraft and Magic in Boscastle where, in 2003, a Dutch speaking student assisted in deciphering some of the written materials in the collection. It was during this process that the student discovered a fascinating manuscript concerned with Dutch gnome-folklore, and alerted the Meertens Institute in Amsterdam who were happy to receive a copy of the ‘Gnome Manuscript’, as it became known, on CD-Rom. The staff of the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic were most interested in the contents of this manuscript, and so a decision was made to publish a series of books that present translations of the intriguing handwritten content, with comments on the origins of the manuscript and studies of the places described therein. Divided into three sections, the first part is ‘Origins, Habit and Culture’ and focuses on where the gnomes came from, what they were doing and what they expressed. The second part looks deeper into the magic concerning gnomes, and the third part deals with ancillary writings by Eldermans.