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
Ancestors
Sarah Carter, Inez Lightning
Jan 2022
- University of Alberta Press
$39.95 USD
- Paperback / softback
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
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The Words and Wares of David Drake
edited by Jane Przybysz
Nov 2022
- University of South Carolina Press
$49.99 USD
- Hardback
$34.99 USD
- Paperback / softback
Botticelli and Renaissance Florence
edited by Cecilia Frosinini, Rachel Mcgarry
Oct 2022
- Minneapolis Institute of Arts
$29.95 USD
- Paperback / softback
Immune Nations
edited by Natalie Loveless
Jun 2022
- University of Alberta Press
$39.99 USD
- Hardback