Hunt Roman was designed by Hermann Zapf, at the suggestion of Jack W Stauffacher, as a display face for private use at the Hunt Botanical Library. The design was cut by Arthur Ritzel at the D. Stempel AG typefoundry at Frankfurt am Main, and cast by them in metal type at four sizes, 12, 14, 18 and 24 point. Over the past 60 years a very small number of letterpress printers (about six, including Zapf and Stauffacher) have owned fonts. This book follows Stauffacher’s text from his 1968 lecture to the Roxburghe Club where he meditates upon the nature of the typographic book. Hand-set in 18 point Hunt Roman with 24 point display and printed in an edition of 115 copies on papers from the German mill of Zerkall.

Italics are added from Berthold Walbaum, another of Stauffacher’s favourite typefaces at his Greenwood Press.