1. William Joseph "Dard" Hunter was an American authority on printing, paper, and papermaking, especially by hand, using sixteenth-century tools and techniques.
13 Facts About Dard Hunter
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Dard Hunter is known for, among other things, the production of two hundred copies of his book Old Papermaking, for which he prepared all aspects: Hunter wrote the text, designed and cast the type, did the typesetting, handmade the paper, and printed and bound the book.
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Active in the Arts and Crafts movement, Hunter created and championed many other types of handmade arts and crafts, publishing his own guides, such as Things You Can Make.
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Dard Hunter experimented with pottery, jewelry, stained glass windows, and furniture.
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Dard Hunter founded a correspondence school, the Dard Hunter School of Handicrafts.
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Dard Hunter was born and raised in Steubenville, Ohio, where his father published a gazette and ran a printery.
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Dard Hunter began his career in East Aurora, New York, with a job at Roycroft, the Arts and Crafts company of Elbert Hubbard.
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In 1908, Dard Hunter married Edith Cornell, a pianist he met at Roycroft, and the couple honeymooned in Vienna, a location inspired by Dard Hunter's interest in Josef Hoffmann.
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In 1912, they returned to the United States, and Dard Hunter bought and moved into the Gomez Mill House near Marlboro, New York.
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Dard Hunter built a small papermill there, and crafted his first books on papermaking.
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In 1919, the Dard Hunter family returned to Ohio and purchased the 1852 "Mountain House" in Chillicothe, which had been built for German winemakers.
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Dard Hunter used a wing joined to the house for his letterpress printing studio, named Mountain House Press, where he produced eight handmade books, authored twenty books on the topic of papermaking, and was an active publisher between 1922 and 1956.
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Dard Hunter was a Rosenbach Fellow in Bibliography at the University of Pennsylvania.