William Joseph "Dard" Hunter (November 29, 1883 – February 20, 1966) was an American authority on printing, paper, and papermaking, especially by hand, using sixteenth-century tools and techniques.

A display at the Smithsonian Institution that appeared with his work read, "In the entire history of printing, these are the first books to have been made in their entirety by the labors of one man.

He began his career in East Aurora, New York, with a job at Roycroft, the Arts and Crafts company of Elbert Hubbard.

Hunter returned to Europe to study papermaking in Italy, and was graduated from Vienna's Royal-Imperial Graphic Teaching and Experimental Institute (K. K. Graphische Lehr und Versuchsanstalt).

In his exploration of primitive and early papermaking, he would travel to East Asia and Pacific locales such as Samoa, Tonga, and Fiji.

[2] In 1919, the Hunter family returned to Ohio and purchased the 1852 "Mountain House" in Chillicothe, which had been built for German winemakers.

Members of his family maintain Dard Hunter Studios at the historic Mountain House, which are open to the public by appointment.

[8] To promote and continue the tradition of hand papermaking and book arts, Friends of Dard Hunter was established in 1981.