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Author: Frank Ernest Pardoe
Publisher: London : F. Muller
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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Author: Frank Ernest Pardoe
Publisher: London : F. Muller
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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Author: John Baskerville
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Caroline Archer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 1786940647
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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This book is concerned with the eighteenth-century typographer, printer, industrialist and Enlightenment figure, John Baskerville (1707-75). Baskerville was a Birmingham inventor, entrepreneur and artist with a worldwide reputation who made eighteenth-century Birmingham a city without typographic equal, by changing the course of type design. Baskerville not only designed one of the world's most historically important typefaces, he also experimented with casting and setting type, improved the construction of the printing-press, developed a new kind of paper and refined the quality of printing inks. His typographic experiments put him ahead of his time, had an international impact and did much to enhance the printing and publishing industries of his day. Yet despite his importance, fame and influence many aspects of Baskerville's work and life remain unexplored and his contribution to the arts, industry, culture and society of the Enlightenment are largely unrecognized. Moreover, recent scholarly research in archaeology, art and design, history, literary studies and typography, is leading to a fundamental reassessment of many aspects of Baskerville's life and impact, including his birthplace, his work as an industrialist, the networks which sustained him and the reception of his printing in Britain and overseas. The last major, but inadequate publication of Baskerville dates from 1975. Now, forty years on, the time is ripe for a new book. This interdisciplinary approach provides an original contribution to printing history, eighteenth-century studies and the dissemination of ideas.
Author: William BENNETT (of Birmingham.)
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Languages : en
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Author: Philip Gaskell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521170729
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 111
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This 1959 bibliography lists and describes everything that came from the press of John Baskerville of Birmingham, who was appointed Printer to the University of Cambridge in 1758. After an introduction in which Dr Gaskell describes the methods that he has adopted and the conclusions that he has drawn from the investigation, there are two main parts: Specimens, Proposals and other Ephemera, and Books. Each entry contains a quasi-facsimile transcription of the title page, and gives details of formula contents amongst several other things. This, which was the first full bibliography of Baskerville's work, will be an essential tool for Baskerville collectors and for historians of printing and typography as well as for bibliographers. There are twelve collotype plates, most of which illustrate unique copies of Baskerville's ephemera; and there is in addition a full-size facsimile of Baskerville's last type specimen.
Author: John Baskerville
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2
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Author: Josiah Henry Benton
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Category : Printing
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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Author: John Baskerville
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Languages : de
Pages : 54
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Author: Ralph Straus
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Category : Birmingham (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Author: William Bennett (of Birmingham, Eng.)
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Languages : en
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