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