John Baskerville: Art and Industry of the Enlightenment

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Year of Publication
2017
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Number of Pages
269 pp.
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
City
Liverpool, England
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ISBN
9781786940643
Annotation

Baskerville was an 18th century printer in Birmingham, England. 

Contents: 

  • Foreword
  • Timeline
  • Baskerville Family Tree
  • Introduction: John Baskerville: Art and Industry of the Enlightenment / Caroline Archer-Parre and Malcolm Dick
  • The Topographies of a Typographer: Mapping John Baskerville since the Eighteenth Century / Malcolm Dick
  • Baskerville's Birmingham: Printing and the English Urban Renaissance / John Hinks
  • Place, Home and Workplace: Baskerville's Birthplace and Buildings / George Demidowicz
  • John Baskerville: Japanner of 'Tea Trays and other Household Goods' / Yvonne Jones
  • John Baskerville, William Hutton and their Social Networks / Susan Whyman
  • John Baskerville the Writing Master: Calligraphy and Type in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries / Ewan Clayton
  • A Reappraisal of Baskerville's Greek Types / Gerry Leonidas
  • John Baskerville's Decorated Papers / Barry McKay and Diana Patterson
  • The 'Baskerville Bindings' / Aurelie Martin
  • After the 'Perfect Book': English Printers and their Use of Baskerville's Type, 1767-90 / Martin Killeen
  • The Cambridge Cult of the Baskerville Press / Caroline Archer-Parre
  • The 'Baskerville Bindings'
  • Members of the Baskerville Club