London: Aldine House, 1926

8vo, pp. 244. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt to front panel and spine. Gilt to spine faded, offsetting to endpapers, a very well preserved copy, lacking the rare dust jacket.

First edition of this scarce work of prose by the painter, illustrator and wood engraver Bernard Sleigh [1872-1954].

A book in ten chapters, comprising ten case studies of human interaction with the fairy otherworld. Chapter 5, Mescal, describes the subject's ingestion of mescal buttons as an aid to contact.

The book carries a lengthy printed dedication to 'I.A.E'. Sleigh and his fellow artist Ivy Ann Ellis collaborated on many artistic commissions; she was granted probate on Sleigh's death.