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Fishing by Darrell Hyder
North Brookfield, MA: Sun Hill Press, 1998
Miniature. Indigo-dyed rainbow trout with marigold-dyed salmon lacing. Ruscombe Mill handmade endpapers. Title stamped in navy foil. Original paper wrapper bound in. All parchment processed by the binder. Bound 2025.
2 7/8 x 2 5/8 x 1/4”
7.5 x 6 x .5 cm
Quotes about fishing from across the ages, six tiny illustrations of fish and flies.
A Fish Story by J. Ed Newman
Edgewater, FL: the JEN Press, 1994.
Miniature. Sewing supports of Atlantic salmon parchment dyed in lac laced into rainbow trout parchment case and chemise of multi-colored Canson Mi-Teintes. Ruscombe Mill handmade endpapers. Title stamped in 23 kt gold foil. Dust jacket bound in. All parchment processed by the binder. Laced compound folded cover binding based on a 2003 illustration by Gary Frost. Bound 2025.
2 7/8 x 2 3/4 x 3/8”
7.5 x 6.5 x 1 cm
A rainbow trout is the narrator of this story of a fish that is caught then released by the printer.
The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton.
Glenview, IL: Karen Hanmer Book Arts, 2022.
Miniature. Bradel binding. Boards and spine covered in sockeye parchment processed by the binder, dyed in indigo, cochineal, and marigold. Title stamped in blue pigment foil on Japanese tissue label, Japanese tissue rolled endbands. Ruscombe Mill endpapers. Bound 2025.
2 15/16 x 2 ¼ x ¾”
7.5 x 5.5 x 1.75 cm
The Compleat Angler is a meditation on nature, friendship, and of course fish and fishing. First published in 1653, it remains among the most reprinted English language books. Formatted by the binder from public domain sources. This edition’s nine illustrations include three facsimile pages from the first edition.