DARD HUNTER & SON

Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1998.. 165pp. Folio (32.5 x 23.5 cm; 13 x 9"). Quarter black morocco and cloth over boards, gilt label. Illustrated with thirty pages of b&w illustrations, thirty tip-ins (including color), four paper samples, and seven leaves from Mountain House books. Very fine in folding cloth case. Prospectus laid in. First edition. One of 225 copies printed in Ehrhardt types on Frankfurt mould-made paper, with Foreword and Notes, by Henry Morris. An important supplement to LIFE WORK OF DARD HUNTER, with an additional account of the life of Dard Hunter II by Dard Hunter III. "There are three tipped-in-plates with 55 color reproductions of swatches of marbled and paste papers done by Hunter in his Vienna days, three samples (reprintings by Bird & Bull) of 2-color page or cover designs done for the Roycrofters, photos of the Marlborough Mill and a reduced-size reprint of a Dard Hunter poster drawing of the mill, original leaves from various publications, a bound-in sample of paper made by Dard Hunter and two by his son, tipped-in photos of Dard Hunter demonstrating papermaking at MIT in 1946, and a tipped-in facsimile of a page of notes made by Dard Hunter while visiting an English paper mill. The book concludes with a ten-page facsimile of the journal kept by Dard Hunter II while writing the Life Work. In all, there are about seventy individual text illustrations or facsimiles, twenty or so tipped-in plates, and sixteen printings or reprintings by the Hunters and print reproductions by Bird & Bull"- Oak Knoll announcement. Justifiably considered among the most significant productions of Morris's own press. BERGER A61.