Hardback | |
October 15, 2018 | |
9781551954059 | |
English | |
176 | |
12.00 Inches (US) | |
9.00 Inches (US) | |
1.00 Inches (US) | |
2.4 Pounds (US) | |
$49.95 USD, £38.99 GBP | |
v2.1 Reference | |
A Contemplative Angler
Selections from the Bruce P. Dancik Collection of Angling Books
This exhibition catalogue shows nearly 100 highlights of an extraordinary collection of rare books and print ephemera about angling. Featuring the books of a single collector, Bruce P. Dancik, who is an angler-collector in the mould of Roderick Haig-Brown, the catalogue includes titles that have contributed significantly to the development of angling as a sport and as a philosophy. Many books in the collection are titles of extreme rarity, often illustrated with woodcuts, copper or steel engravings, chromolithographs, and photoengravings. The curator, Justin Hanisch, has organized the publication into five sections: Manuals and Handbooks, Limited Editions, Angling as Adventure, Canadian Angling, and Scientific Angling.
About the Authors
Justin Hanisch is a biologist with the Government of Alberta and an avid collector of antiquarian books on the natural and social history of fish. In 2011, Hanisch won the second National Book Collecting Contest for Canadians under the age of 30.
Reviews
"... you don't so much read this book as engage with its lively illustrations, photographs, and paintings, its pages and pages of gilt-edged book spines, titles, bindings, and dust jackets, its myriad typographies, its brilliantly colored and nuanced fly patterns, and its full-page reproductions of rare books in various angles of repose."—Robert DeMott, Anglers' Club of New York Bulletin, 2020
Hardback | |
October 15, 2018 | |
9781551954059 | |
English | |
176 | |
12.00 Inches (US) | |
9.00 Inches (US) | |
1.00 Inches (US) | |
2.4 Pounds (US) | |
$49.95 USD, £38.99 GBP | |
v2.1 Reference | |
Other Titles from Bruce Peel Special Collections
Experiment: Printing the Canadian Imagination
David McKnight
Apr 2018
- University of Alberta Press
$39.95 USD
- Paperback / softback
Salt, Sword, and Crozier
Felice Lifshitz, Joseph Patrouch
Sep 2017
- University of Alberta Press
$39.95 USD
- Paperback / softback
Mounties on the Cover
with contributions by Alert Henry (Al) Lund
Apr 2017
- University of Alberta Press
$39.95 USD
- Paperback / softback
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The Words and Wares of David Drake
edited by Jill Beute Koverman and Jane Przybysz
Feb 2024
- University of South Carolina Press
$34.99 USD
- Paperback / softback
Calder: In Motion
edited by José Carlos, José Carlos Diaz, with contributions by Alexander S. C. Rower, John Shirley, Elizabeth Hutton Turner
Jan 2024
- Samara Museum of History Regional Stds
$45.00 USD
- Hardback
Collecting Shakespeare
Stephen H. Grant
Oct 2023
- Johns Hopkins University Press
$35.00 USD
- Hardback
$35.00 USD
- Electronic book text
$24.95 USD
- Paperback / softback