[PAPERMAKING]. [HUNTER, Dard (1883-1966), subject]. BAKER, Dr. Cathleen A. (b. 1945). By His Own Labor. The Biography of Dard Hunter. [Tuscaloosa, AL:] Red Hydra Press, 2000. Large 8vos. Illustrated throughout. Text and plates volumes. Text volume with woodcut portrait of Hunter signed by artist John DePol. [4, blank], [xxvi], [1]-[335], [1, blank] pp. Plate volume is unpaginated. Text volume hand-bound by Gray Parrot in publisher's quarter green levant morocco over patterned boards, spine ruled and lettered in gilt, handmade paper endleaves and text; plates volume bound in publisher's full green cloth, printed paper label on front board. Both housed in publisher's full green cloth clamshell case. FIRST EDITION, #57/150 COPIES SIGNED BY DR. BAKER. 

"By His Own Labor is the new, definitive, and authorized biography of Dard Hunter Sr., which primarily relies on the newly discovered archive in Mountain House. Unlike its predecessors, it is a critical and complete study of Hunter's life and work and is supported by extensive endnotes." (Publisher's website). "Dard Hunter is best known as the paper historian whose writings form the cornerstone of our knowledge about world handmade paper history, technologym and materials... This Red Hydra publication is based on the 10,000 non-book items in Hunter's previously unexamined archives. Cathleen Baker, a paper conservator and teacher, lived for three years in the northeast tower of Hunter's Mountain House while cataloguing and researching these materials." (Publisher's website).  

Rfep. of text volume creased (possibly a paper error). Fine.