Friday, February 12, 2010
My Adventure Thru Fairyland...
More news later on Black Festival, all of the copies which I signed and numbered today. But this in between. Now if this is not a major reason to evoke wonder and stretch the limits of creativity, nothing is. I have a poster-copy on my wall and it does nothing but inspire me to greater heights.
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Where would one find a larger digital or print version of this?
Greetings Tyler!
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/books/akerman/maps_imaginary.html
Try there and at the Library of Congress. I have a very large facsimile copy but it's way too large to post.
Thanks for the pointer!
Where did you get your copy?
From a poster dealer on EBay who was reproducing these, a little over 2 years ago. It was then 19.99 plus shipping and the quality is excellent. Unfortunately, the information was on another hard drive which is no longer functioning and I did an ebay search with no effect.
The 36 x 24 version is available on ebay. I have the "stretch" version which is 5' long without all of the colorized framing in burgundy-red, whatever color it is.
Persistent searching on ANCIENT MAP OF FAIRYLAND or its variation ANCIENTE MAPPE OF FAIRYLAND may yield some results over time. I will continue looking as well.
OK: This is the person/business I purchased it from on EBay:
http://myworld.ebay.com/mapreproductions
If you find out anything about current prices/availability. please share the information here.
Another somewhat forgotten work these days - at least until those reprints appeared, it seems! Was relatively well known back in the 1920s/30s and referenced for comparison to Tolkien's work when The Hobbit was first released.
Thanks for the zoomable link, Rob; that's just about detailed enough to piece back together again. ;)
Hi David,
Yeah. It's all about these days. I believe that the Library of Congress has the best version for viewing and dowloading.
I first ran across this in B&W in my (now battered and much overused) "An Atlas of Fantasy," J. B. Post, Mirage Press, 1973. The entry runs over 8 pages to include all its parts.
Library of Congress Link:
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/map_item.pl?data=/home/www/data/gmd/gmd9/g9930/g9930/ct001818.jp2&style=gmd&itemLink=r?ammem/gmd:@field(NUMBER+@band(g9930+ct001818))&title=An%20anciente%20mappe%20of%20Fairyland%20%3a%20newly%20discovered%20and%20set%20forth%20%3a%20[imaginary%20locality]%20%2f%20designed%20by%20Bernard%20Sleigh.
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