Baskerville, John

Image: Portrait of John Baskerville (1706-1775), Type Founder and Printer, painted by James Millar in 1774. Oil… read more »

Baskerville’s Type Foundry at the end of Caxton Passage, High Street, the back of Marsh’s Jewellers, July… read more »

Image: Baskerville’s Type Foundry at the end of Caxton Passage, High Street, the back of Marsh’s Jewellers,… read more »

Image: Slate tablet advertising Baskerville’s works showing his skill as a designer of letters: “Grave Stone Cut… read more »

Image: Letter Press Printer.  The Book of Trades or Library of Useful Arts, Parts III, third edition… read more »

Image: Pencil drawing of the remains of John Baskerville, in Miscellaneous items relating to John Baskerville (1706-1775)… read more »

Image: Title page for the New Testament in Baskerville’s Holy Bible from the title page in Matthew… read more »

Image: Title Page from The Book of Common Prayer, printed by John Baskerville for Cambridge University, 1760. … read more »

Image: Frontispiece from Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Printed by John Baskerville, Birmingham, 1770. Unlike Franklin, Baskerville published and… read more »

Image: Title page for Baskerville’s edition of the Holy Bible from the copy owned by Matthew Boulton.… read more »

Image: Typefounding. The Book of Trades or Library of Useful Arts, Parts I, third edition (London Tabart… read more »

Explore the life and work of John Baskerville – a Birmingham based printer, stone cutter, letter founder,… read more »

Image: Portrait of John Baskerville (1706-1775), Type Founder and Printer, painted by James Millar in 1774. Oil on canvas. Industry… read more »

Image: Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790). The Hundred Greatest Men: Portraits of the One Hundred Greatest Men, Vol VII Politics, (Sampson… read more »

Image: Portrait of John Baskerville (1706-1775), Type Founder and Printer, painted by James Millar in 1774. Oil on… read more »