Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Timeline
- Baskerville Family Tree
- Introduction: John Baskerville: Art and Industry of the Enlightenment
- 1 The Topographies of a Typographer: Mapping John Baskerville since the Eighteenth Century
- 2 Baskerville's Birmingham: Printing and the English Urban Renaissance
- 3 Place, Home and Workplace: Baskerville's Birthplace and Buildings
- 4 John Baskerville: Japanner of ’Tea Trays and other Household Goods‘
- 5 John Baskerville, William Hutton and their Social Networks
- 6 John Baskerville the Writing Master: Calligraphy and Type in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
- 7 A Reappraisal of Baskerville's Greek Types
- 8 John Baskerville's Decorated Papers
- 9 The ‘Baskerville Bindings’
- 10 After the ‘Perfect Book’: English Printers and their Use of Baskerville's Type, 1767–90
- 11 The Cambridge Cult of the Baskerville Press
- Appendices
- Further Reading
- General Bibliography
- Notes on the Contributors
- Index
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Notes on the Contributors
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Timeline
- Baskerville Family Tree
- Introduction: John Baskerville: Art and Industry of the Enlightenment
- 1 The Topographies of a Typographer: Mapping John Baskerville since the Eighteenth Century
- 2 Baskerville's Birmingham: Printing and the English Urban Renaissance
- 3 Place, Home and Workplace: Baskerville's Birthplace and Buildings
- 4 John Baskerville: Japanner of ’Tea Trays and other Household Goods‘
- 5 John Baskerville, William Hutton and their Social Networks
- 6 John Baskerville the Writing Master: Calligraphy and Type in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
- 7 A Reappraisal of Baskerville's Greek Types
- 8 John Baskerville's Decorated Papers
- 9 The ‘Baskerville Bindings’
- 10 After the ‘Perfect Book’: English Printers and their Use of Baskerville's Type, 1767–90
- 11 The Cambridge Cult of the Baskerville Press
- Appendices
- Further Reading
- General Bibliography
- Notes on the Contributors
- Index
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- John BaskervilleArt and Industry of the Enlightenment, pp. 260 - 262Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2017