[Bruce Rogers | Inscribed by Dard Hunter] Before Life Began

Hunter, Dard. Before Life Began 1883-1923. Cleveland: The Rowfant Club, 1941. Limited to 219 copies, of which this is #212. Designed by Bruce Rogers, and signed by him at colophon. Inscribed on the front free endpaper by Dard Hunter: "Inscribed for my friend Charles E. Pont by Dard Hunter December 10, mcmlviii". Full page profile watermark of Hunter, followed by a page of paper watermarked with the name "DARD HUNTER". Original vellum-backed decorative boards with gilt title to spine, with cover paper made by Veronica Ruzicka. Top edge gilt. Pont's small bookplate to front pastedown. Measures approx. 6.25" x 9". Includes original brown rag paper dust jacket. Slight rubbing to bottom edge. “In 1941 Rogers designed Before Life Began, for the Rowfant Club of Cleveland, Ohio, an autobiography of Dard Hunter, historian and practitioner of papermaking by hand. The book was printed at the Press of A. Colish on paper handmade at Hunter’s own mill in Lime Rock, Connecticut, set in Bulmer type ..