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Papermaking By Hand in America

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26.05.2022 10:00UTC -04:00
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ID 752987
Lot 281 | Papermaking By Hand in America
Papermaking By Hand in AmericaDard Hunter, 1950HUNTER, Dard (1883-1966). Papermaking By Hand in America. Chillicothe, Ohio: Mountain House Press, 1950. A fine copy of the author's magnum opus. “The most authoritative history of early American papermaking is Dard Hunter’s sumptuous, large folio Papermaking by Hand in America, a tour de force on one-man bookmaking, set by the author in a handcut type and hand-printed on handmade paper manufactured at the author’s own mill…Hunter spared no expense to record and evoke the paper mills of the preindustrial era” (Bidwell). With a 1951 typed letter signed by Hunter and a photo of his press affixed to preliminary pages. The letter reflects on the recent passing of Hunter's wife; he writes, "Mrs Hunter has always been a great help to me in the printing of the various books and she will be sadly missed. [...] Her demise was a tremendous shock to me and it is now very doubltful if I will ever agian do anything with book production. The edition of "Papermaking by Hand in America" will be my last...." The thick folio volume was to have been issued in an edition of 210 copies, but the author's own bibliography says that only 180 were completed. This is copy number 45. Bidwell, John, “The Study of Paper as Evidence, Artefact, and Commodity” in The Book Encompassed: Studies in Twentieth-Century Bibliography, ed. Peter Davison, pp. 69-82; Schlosser 41. Folio (415 x 285mm). 123 facsimiles of documents and watermarks and 42 reproductions of labels used by early paper manufacturers. Half linen, patterned paper boards, printed spine label. Custom quarter morocco box.
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