Dard Hunter & Son
Item #84598
(BIRD & BULL). HUNTER, Dard II and HUNTER, Dard III. Dard Hunter & Son. With a Foreword and Notes by Henry Morris. Quarter leather black morocco and cloth-covered boards. Cloth covered clamshell box with leather spine label. Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1998. One of 225 copies, this being no. 74. A tribute to the papermakers Dard Hunter (1883-1963) and his son, also Dard Hunter (1917-1989), with numerous photographs and examples of their work tipped in. There are three tipped-in plates with 55 color reproductions of swatches, three samples of cover designs done for Roycrofters, original leaves from various publications, a bound-in sample of paper made by Dard Hunter and two by his son, a reduced size reprint of a Dard Hunter drawing of the Marlborough Mill, tipped-in photos of Dard Hunter demonstrating papermaking at MIT in 1946, and a tipped-in facsimile page of Dard Hunter's notes. Also, included at the back of the book is a ten-page facsimile of Dard Hunter II's journal while writing the Life Work. Though he made papermaking his life's work, there is not much published about Dard Hunter except his autobiography and the Life Work of Dard Hunter, written by his son. A fine copy.
Price: $1,000.00