Title: Compleat Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation.
Publisher: Frowde, Henry. London. Oxford University Press Warehouse, Amen Corner, E.C.
Publication Date: 1900
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Circa 1900. 588 printed pages. Portrait frontispiece. Additional decorated title page. India paper. Rounded corners. From the fifth, 1676 edition, much corrected and enlarged. Printed by Horace Hart, printer to the University. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt over red. Inner gilt dentelles. 1.8 x 2.1". Contemporary straight-grained dark green morocco (slightly rubbed, repair to head of spine). Scarcest Oxford miniature book and one of few antique, miniature, fishing books published. Henry Frowde was manager of the London office of Oxford University Press until 1913. Bondy, 117. Spielmann, 504-5. Welsh, 7030. Seller Inventory # 5313