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After moving back to Chillicothe, Ohio, in 1919, Hunter decided to devote his life to researching, collecting, writing, and publishing the world's history of hand papermaking and printing. His first work, The Literature of Papermaking 1390-1800, was completed in 1925.
Scholarship exhibit caseFor his next books Hunter concentrated on oriental papermaking. He traveled over one million miles to remote regions of the world, gathering rare paper samples from many destinations. He went to mills and collected specimens, tools, and first-hand information from paper makers in Japan, Korea, Indo-China, Siam, and India. From 1922 to 1950, seven more works were produced at the Mountain House Press. Each book was printed on an iron hand press with hand set type, many with his typeface or that of Dard Hunter II.
Papermaking in Southern Siam title page Papermaking in Southern Siam by Dard Hunter. [Chillicothe, O.], 1936. TS1095 S5 H8.
  —The fifth treatise on papermaking to be made into a book at his private press is an account of a visitation with the Tym Niltongkum family at Bangsom, the last remnant of the old handmade papermakers of southern Siam.
Papermaking in Indo-China by Dard Hunter. [Chillicothe, Ohio, Mountain House Press], 1947. TS1095.I55 H8. Papermaking in Indo-China
Papermaking by Hand in America Papermaking by Hand in America by Dard Hunter. Chillicothe, Ohio : Mountain House Press, 1950. TS1095.U6 H8.
  —For this book, his last, his son Dard Hunter II hand cut and cast a completely new font of type. This work remains Dard Hunter's masterpiece.
By the time of his death in 1966, Dard Hunter was responsible for a renaissance in hand papermaking and printing. Today, scholars, historians, and artists interested in papermaking and printing are still inspired. He was a maker of books in all their components: text, paper, and type combined through printing. Dard Hunter remains an artist, craftsman, writer, and world renowned scholar. Dard Hunter's watermark

 

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