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JOHN BASKERVILLE

CONTENT 1. BACKGROUND 2. CONTRIBUTIONS 3. PUBLISHED WORKS 4. REFERENCES

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BACKGROUND

John Baskerville (1706-1775)

He was an English businessman in areas including japanning and

papier-mâchÊ , but he was best remembered as a type designer, writing master and self- taught printer.

BACKGROUND

John Baskerville’s handwriting

He was a member of the Royal Society of Arts and also an

associate of some of the members of the Lunar Society.

Baskerville also was responsible for significant innovations in printing, paper and ink production.

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CONTRIBUTIONS

In 1754, John Baskerville designed a new typeface

bearing his name “Baskerville”.

CONTRIBUTIONS

ABCDEFGHIJKLM NOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklm nopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789 Baskerville typeface

CONTRIBUTIONS

OLD STYLE Garamond

TRANSITIONAL STYLE Baskerville

MODERN STYLE Bodoni

CONTRIBUTIONS

Hand-carving Baskerville on a headstone for John Baskerville by Gabriel Hummerston

CONTRIBUTIONS

CONTRIBUTIONS

Whatman handmade paper

3 PUBLISHED WORKS

The 1757quarto edition of the works of Virgil

John Milton's Paradise Lost (1758)

PUBLISHED WORKS

The 1766 translation of Virgil into English, by Robert Andrews

Baskerville's 1763 Bible

The works of Joseph Addison (1761)

4 REFERENCES • Benton, Josiah Henry (1914). John Baskerville: Typefounder and Printer, 1706-1775. Boston: The Merrymount Press.

• Gaskell, Philip (1973). John Baskerville: A Bibliography.

Paul P. B. Minet.

• Sutton, James; Sutton, Alan (1988). An Atlas of Typeforms.

Wordsworth Editions. p. 59 • http://idsgn.org/posts/know-your-type-baskerville/ • https://blogs.princeton.edu/graphicarts/2010/01/the_baskerville_virgil.html