Hunter, Dard. Before Life Began. Cleveland: The Rowfant Club, 1941. Colophon reads: "Printed for the Rowfant Club printed at the press of A. Colish, New York on paper made in the author's mill at Lime Rock, Connecticut. The water-mark portrait shows him half-way before life began. The cover paper was made by Veronica Ruzicka and the book planned by (signed) Bruce Rogers " No. 170 of 219 copies. With Roger's stamp on back of colophon. 8vo, 116pp, vellum spine, in slipcase with paper spine label. This is Hunter's early life. He begins with his ancestors, and their migration to North America from Scotland and eventually to Chillicothe, Ohio, and Stuebenville (where he was born) and other nearby SE Ohio towns. He gives his early influences and where he studied each of his interests - from casting type to printing, from making paper to binding, from design, including stained glass, to setting up his first mills, and much more. He describes his years at East Aurora, and later in Vienna and London. He mentions his travels throughout Asia and the Pacific Islands, plus much of the rest of the world, places like Mexico and Africa, learning from those with paper-making traditions everywhere. He even retained vivid memories of his years at Ohio State, where he boarded with Dr. William Mills the famous archaeologist, and was with him during his excavations at Baum village and the Adena mound. Hunter was there when the Adena effigy was unearthed. And while this may seem remote to papermaking, it certainly influenced his sense of design and "primitive" arts. Hunter, Dard. My Life with Paper: An Autobiography. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958. 8vo, orange cloth, w/dj, 237pp, [ix]. Printed in Rudolph Ruzicka's first typeface. Dard Hunter (1883-1966) is considered to be the most influential person in the printing, papermaking, binding arts in at least the 20th century. On the back of the dj, John T. Winterich is quoted as saying: "There are few things in this world that I am sure of, but one of them is that Dard Hunter knows more about paper than anyone else knows about anything else." Many would agree. These autobiographies tell how he got there. Provenance: The John Baxter Black Estate, Mansfield, OH Condition: First is excellent, just starting to show the surface soil typical of vellum. Second has stain on right half of front dj (appears to be dye transfer from another book). Internally clean.
Hunter, Dard. Before Life Began. Cleveland: The Rowfant Club, 1941. Colophon reads: "Printed for the Rowfant Club printed at the press of A. Colish, New York on paper made in the author's mill at Lime Rock, Connecticut. The water-mark portrait shows him half-way before life began. The cover paper was made by Veronica Ruzicka and the book planned by (signed) Bruce Rogers " No. 170 of 219 copies. With Roger's stamp on back of colophon. 8vo, 116pp, vellum spine, in slipcase with paper spine label. This is Hunter's early life. He begins with his ancestors, and their migration to North America from Scotland and eventually to Chillicothe, Ohio, and Stuebenville (where he was born) and other nearby SE Ohio towns. He gives his early influences and where he studied each of his interests - from casting type to printing, from making paper to binding, from design, including stained glass, to setting up his first mills, and much more. He describes his years at East Aurora, and later in Vienna and London. He mentions his travels throughout Asia and the Pacific Islands, plus much of the rest of the world, places like Mexico and Africa, learning from those with paper-making traditions everywhere. He even retained vivid memories of his years at Ohio State, where he boarded with Dr. William Mills the famous archaeologist, and was with him during his excavations at Baum village and the Adena mound. Hunter was there when the Adena effigy was unearthed. And while this may seem remote to papermaking, it certainly influenced his sense of design and "primitive" arts. Hunter, Dard. My Life with Paper: An Autobiography. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958. 8vo, orange cloth, w/dj, 237pp, [ix]. Printed in Rudolph Ruzicka's first typeface. Dard Hunter (1883-1966) is considered to be the most influential person in the printing, papermaking, binding arts in at least the 20th century. On the back of the dj, John T. Winterich is quoted as saying: "There are few things in this world that I am sure of, but one of them is that Dard Hunter knows more about paper than anyone else knows about anything else." Many would agree. These autobiographies tell how he got there. Provenance: The John Baxter Black Estate, Mansfield, OH Condition: First is excellent, just starting to show the surface soil typical of vellum. Second has stain on right half of front dj (appears to be dye transfer from another book). Internally clean.
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