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Chillicothe, Ohio: Mountain House Pressa, 1950. 4pp. folio. Fine, old fold. 4pp. folio.

Chillicothe: Dard Hunter, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. Unbound in original sheets. Fine in fine linen covered chemise in original red/brown morocco and linen clamshell case, spine lettered in gilt. 326 pages. Folio, 43 x 30 cm. Limited edition signed by Dard Hunter, copy 8 of 210, 200 of which were for sale; however, as noted in his own bibliography there were only 180 completed. "The last work of the Mountain House Press and the author's magnum opus, this book provides a history of American papermaking by listing and describing the first paper mill in each state from 1690 until 1811 ... There are in the book 123 facsimiles of documents and watermarks and forty-two reproductions of labels used by these early paper manufacturers. The book is printed on Dard Hunter's paper." This last, most ambitious work, with more illustrations and samples than any of the earlier works: the bold, and elegant type was designed by Hunter's son, Dard Jr. As usual, all type-setting and presswork for the book was done… Read More

Chillicothe, Ohio: Mountain House Press, 1950. Number 204 of 210 copies (200 for sale), signed by the author. Hand-colored photogravure frontispiece of Hunter's Mountain House with 96 facsimiles, 27 reproductions of early American watermarks, and 42 reproductions of ream wrappers on handmade paper intended to reproduce the original papers. Folio (16-3/4 x 11-3/4 inches). Half linen and decorated paper boards, edges untrimmed, laid into a morocco backed folding case. Number 204 of 210 copies (200 for sale), signed by the author. Hand-colored photogravure frontispiece of Hunter's Mountain House with 96 facsimiles, 27 reproductions of early American watermarks, and 42 reproductions of ream wrappers on handmade paper intended to reproduce the original papers. Folio (16-3/4 x 11-3/4 inches). Schlosser 41 "The last work of the Mountain House Press and the author's magnum opus, this book provides a history of American papermaking by listing and describing the first paper mill in each state from 1690 until… Read More

Colored frontis. and over 150 tipped-in illus., facsimiles of paper specimens and ream wrappers, & photographic illus. Large folio, orig. cloth-backed decorated paper boards, printed paper label on spine. Chillicothe: Mountain House Press, 1950. Limited to 210 (?, see below) numbered copies, signed by Hunter who, for this book, made his own paper, type, and ink, and set all the type himself. "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, "Paper as evidence, artefact, and commodity" in The Book Encompassed. Studies in Twentieth-Century Bibliography (1992, ed. by Peter Davison), pp. 75-76. A fine copy preserved in a red morocco-backed… Read More

Chillicothe: Dard Hunter, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. beige linen-backed decorated boards, printed paper spine label in two colors. Fine in fine brown morocco spine lettered in gilt and beige cloth clamshell box. 326 pages. Folio, 43 x 30 cm. Limited edition, copy 69 of 210, 200 of which were for sale; however, as noted in his own bibliography there were only 180 completed. "The last work of the Mountain House Press and the author's magnum opus, this book provides a history of American papermaking by listing and describing the first paper mill in each state from 1690 until 1811 ... There are in the book 123 facsimiles of documents and watermarks and forty-two reproductions of labels used by these early paper manufacturers. The book is printed on Dard Hunter's paper." This last, most ambitious work, with more illustrations and samples than any of the earlier works: the bold, and elegant type was designed by Hunter's son, Dard Jr. As usual, all type-setting and presswork for the book was… Read More

Chillicothe, Ohio: Mountain House Press, 1950. First Edition, one of 210 copies signed by Dard Hunter. With a hand-coloured frontispiece, numerous illustrations, tipped-in samples and labels. Folio (18 by 12.5 inches), in the original linen backed decorative paper-covered boards, the spine with a paper label lettered and decorated in black and red. Housed in a morocco backed buckram covered box with gilt lettering. 326 pp. An especially fine and handsome copy, the textblock pristine, the binding equally well preserved, the original prospectus for the book, and an invitation to the event with Dard Hunter honouring the publication are affixed to front endleaves. Some age evidence to the protective box. A VERY FINE COPY OF THIS IMPORTANT WORK BY DARD HUNTER, THE LAST AND MOST AMBITIOUS WORK TO COME FROM HUNTER’S PRESS. The colophon states 210 copies were produced, but in his book, MY LIFE WITH PAPER, Hunter says it had only been possible to produce 180 of them. The book took several… Read More