Old Papermaking
Old Papermaking
Old Papermaking
Old Papermaking
Old Papermaking

INVENTORY #157240

Old Papermaking

HUNTER, Dard

$3,000.00 CAD Sale

Dard Hunter's first deluxe book on papermaking. Hunter (1883 – 1966) was an American authority on printing, paper, and papermaking, especially by hand, using sixteenth-century tools and techniques. He designed and prepared all parts of this book himself: text, type, typesetting, handmade paper, printing, and binding. Such one-person creations are an extreme rarity.

Publication Info

  • Publisher: n/a
  • Edition: 200 copies of this book printed and signed by Hunter, of which this copy is no. 178
  • Date Published: 1923
  • Place Published: Chillicothe, OH
  • ISBN: n/a

Details

  • Condition: Fair
  • Signed: No
  • Dust Jacket: No
  • Jacket Condition: n/a
  • Details:
    112 p., interspersed with illustrations. 31 cm in box. Frontispiece of Hunter's mill, signed by R. M. Pearson. 9 specimen pages at rear. Other tipped-in plates, specimen pages, and in-text illustrations. Half white paper with marbled paper boards. Deckle edges. Wrapped in tissue paper and housed in protective box. Some soiling to box. Tears and small holes in tissue. Frontispiece and most other tipped-in plates have come unglued. All but 1 of the 9 plates at rear are detached. No plates missing. A little discolouration to bottom of first leaves. Some discolouration from glue. A little foxing to pages inserted before Ch. II. Many pages uncut.

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