By his own labor
Subtitle: the biography of Dard Hunter
By: Cathleen A. Baker
Contributors: Barrett, Timothy; Via, Marie, 1952-; DePol, John, 1913-2004; Parrot, Gray; Bixler, Michael; Hunter, Dard, 1968-; Red Hydra Press; Twinrocker Handmade Paper
Publisher: Red Hydra Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: [Northport, Alabama]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
Subjects: Bibliography; Papermakers; Biography; Papermaking; History; Type and type-founding; Book design; Roycroft Shop
Notes: "John DePol cut the Hunter portrait in wood, Michael and Winifred Bixler cast the Dante types, Kathryn and Howard Clark and Travis Becker of Twinrocker Handmade Paper made the paper, Dard Hunter III made the endsheets at Mountain House using his grandfather's Bull's Head & Branch watermarked mould. R. Stanley Nelson cut the punches for and cast by hand the special DH monogram found in the text."--Colophon.

"Designed and printed on a Vandercook 4 proof press by Steve Miller ... the plate volume was printed by Meriden-Stinehour. ... Both the text and plate volumes were bound by Gray Parrot; the box was made by Judi Conant."

"Copies 1-150 are quarter-bound in leather with printed pattern papers created from a single leaf & stem punch cut by the author, and copies A-E are bound in full leather, specially designed by the binder. In your hand is copy number [numbered in type]"--Colophon, signed in pencil by Cathleen A. Baker.

Issued in clamshell box covered in green cloth, with printed paper spine label.

Errata: p. 332.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 294-296) and index.
Table of contents: title: To love a craft / Timothy D. Barrett; title: The quintessential Roycrofter / Marie Via; title: A friend of Dard Hunter / Kenneth Breidenbaugh; title: A short history of this book with a note to the reader / Cathleen A. Baker; title: <Text>; title: Appendix A. Papermaking by hand : materials and techniques; title: Appendix B. Moulds and watermarks associated with Dard Hunter; title: Appendix C. A descriptive bibliography; title: Chronology.