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Baskerville, John
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Baskerville and Franklin: Status and Success
Image: Portrait of John Baskerville (1706-1775), Type Founder and Printer, painted by James Millar in 1774. Oil… read more »
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Baskerville and Printing
Baskerville’s Type Foundry at the end of Caxton Passage, High Street, the back of Marsh’s Jewellers, July… read more »
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Baskerville and the Sale of Type from his Type Foundry
Image: Baskerville’s Type Foundry at the end of Caxton Passage, High Street, the back of Marsh’s Jewellers,… read more »
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Baskerville Type
Image: Slate tablet advertising Baskerville’s works showing his skill as a designer of letters: “Grave Stone Cut… read more »
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Benjamin Franklin, Printer
Image: Letter Press Printer. The Book of Trades or Library of Useful Arts, Parts III, third edition… read more »
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Franklin and Baskerville: Epitaphs
Image: Pencil drawing of the remains of John Baskerville, in Miscellaneous items relating to John Baskerville (1706-1775)… read more »
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Franklin and Baskerville: Friendship and Co-operation
Image: Title page for the New Testament in Baskerville’s Holy Bible from the title page in Matthew… read more »
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Franklin and Baskerville: Literary Tastes
Image: Title Page from The Book of Common Prayer, printed by John Baskerville for Cambridge University, 1760. … read more »
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Franklin and Baskerville: Printing Activities
Image: Frontispiece from Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Printed by John Baskerville, Birmingham, 1770. Unlike Franklin, Baskerville published and… read more »
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Franklin and Baskerville: Religion
Image: Title page for Baskerville’s edition of the Holy Bible from the copy owned by Matthew Boulton.… read more »
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Franklin and Typefounding
Image: Typefounding. The Book of Trades or Library of Useful Arts, Parts I, third edition (London Tabart… read more »
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Industry and Genius: John Baskerville & the beauty of letters
Explore the life and work of John Baskerville – a Birmingham based printer, stone cutter, letter founder,… read more »
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Industry and Genius; or, the Origin of Birmingham. A Fable
Image: Portrait of John Baskerville (1706-1775), Type Founder and Printer, painted by James Millar in 1774. Oil on canvas. Industry… read more »
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John Baskerville and Benjamin Franklin: A Trans-Atlantic Friendship
Image: Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790). The Hundred Greatest Men: Portraits of the One Hundred Greatest Men, Vol VII Politics, (Sampson… read more »
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Vassilii Pushkin: a Collector of Books
Image: Portrait of John Baskerville (1706-1775), Type Founder and Printer, painted by James Millar in 1774. Oil on… read more »