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John Baskerville, Type-Founder and Printer, 1706 1775

John Baskerville, Type-Founder and Printer, 1706 1775

Benton, Josiah H.

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Library Collection - History of Printing, Publishi

Literary CriticismTypography & Calligraphy

ISBN10: 110807622X
ISBN13: 9781108076227
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Oct 2 2014
Pages: 94
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
The Baskerville Bible of 1763 is perhaps the most famous work published by Cambridge University Press, and Baskerville's own type punches are among its most treasured possessions. This short biography of John Baskerville (1706-75) was published in 1914 by Josiah Henry Benton (1843-1917), an American lawyer and author. Baskerville, born in Worcestershire, set up as a writing-master and letter-cutter in Birmingham, but later built up a business in 'japanning', the imitation of Japanese lacquer work, from which he made his fortune. He began working as a type-founder and printer around 1750, and made innovations not only in typefaces but also in paper, ink and printing machines. The quality of his books - not only the Bible, but also the Book of Common Prayer, an edition of Virgil, and Milton's Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, among others - made them collectors' items: Benton provides an appendix listing his own Baskerville books.

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