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In the 1970s, Wil Huygen (1922 - 2009), a Dutch physician and writer, teamed with Rien Poortvliet (1932 - 1995), a Dutch artist, to present Gnomes with the same scientific detail as Audubon studied and drew birds. (First published in the Netherlands in 1976.) Peacock Press/Bantam Books - Toronto, New York, London. Copyright Uniebook B.V./Van Holkema & Warendorf. Imaginative, beautifully written and illustrated book of gnome life, biology, and myth. First edition of Gnomes by Wil Huygen and Rien Poortvliet.

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