Old Papermaking

Book Description

Chillicothe, OH: Mountain House Press, 1923. First Edition/Limited Edition. Hardcover. Minor shelf/edge wear, usual glue toning/offsetting at tipped-in plates/specimens, tail of backstrip professionally repaired, toning at endpages from DJ flaps, owner bookplate at front pastedown, else tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows light shelf/edge wear, small chip at head, moderate chip at tail, small closed tear at top front, author/title/date printed in pen at spine (it was issued unprinted), else clean. Halfbound, white paper spine and tips, brown pastepaper boards, tipped in frontispiece, bound in specimens. 4to. 112pp plus 12np specimens.Numbered limited edition, this being 40 of 200. The first book Mountain House Press printed and Hunter's first book on papermaking. Printed on Hunter's handmade paper and in his types. Illustrated with numerous text illustrations, full page b/w plates, color plates (three folding), four original watermarks and six original paper specimens. Bookplate of the Zamorano Club indicate it was a gift to them from the personal library of one of the founders, well-known collector Arthur M Ellis by his children. A scarce and highly desirable volume, rarely found in the original DJ in any condition.

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