John Baskerville
28 January 1706 – 8 January 1775
An English businessman, in areas including japanning and papier-mâché, but he is best remembered as a printer and type designer (<a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Baskerville>Wikipedia</a>).
Books
- A selection of letters to and from Benj. Franklin
- Grave stones cut in any of the hands by John Baskerville, writing master
- A specimen
- [Specimen of] Proposals for printing by subscription the poetical works of John Milton
- A specimen by John Baskerville of Birmingham
- Abentheuer eines Frauenzimmers von Vergnügen
- Some correspondence concerning the making of printing type / by John Baskerville of Birmingham
- John Baskerville on printing & letter founding
- One Beautiful Woman
- A specimen of printing letter
- Novum Testamentum juxta exemplar Millianum
- Seventeen letters of the famous eighteenth century printer, with a bibliography of works printed by him at Birmingham
- Some correspondence concerning the making of printing type
- Some correspondence concerning the making of printing type / by John Baskerville of Birmingham
- Specimen of the 4° Virgil, with proposals, 1754
- A specimen by John Baskerville of Birmingham in the County of Warwick, Letter-Founder and Printer
- A specimen by John Baskerville of Birmingham, letter-founder and printer
- Two new books for the Bible!
- Letters of the famous 18th century printer, John Baskerville of Birmingham
- Oeuvres completes de Voltaire
- The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New
- Publii Virgilii Maronis Bucolica Georgica et Aeneis ...
- Épreuves des caractères de Baskerville
- Preface to Milton's 'Paradise lost'
- A vocabulary
- A specimen by John Baskerville of Birmingham
- A vocabulary, or pocket dictionary
- A letter to the Royal academy of sciences, Paris
- Proposals for printing by subscription, a complete edition of the works of Voltaire
- A specimen
- Specimens of printing types ... in facsimile
- Two new books for the Bible!
- Essai d'épreuves des caractères de la fonderie de Baskerville ...
- A letter to the Royal academy of sciences, Paris
- Specimens of printing types
- A specimen of printing letter
- [Specimen of a complete alphabet of Baskerville Great Primer type]
- A letter from John Baskerville, letter-founder & printer of Birmingham to Robert Dodsley, bookseller of Pall Mall London, 12th May 1757
- Preface to Milton's 'Paradise lost'
- A Specimen of printing letter designed by John Baskerville about the year MDCCLVII
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