Baskerville, John
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- Birmingham, Birmingham, West Midlands, West Midlands, England
Sectors:
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Fabricated metal products manufacture
Japanned ware production
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Publishing & printing
Other printing
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Fabricated metal products manufacture
Typefounding
Notes:
John Baskerville, 1706-75, was initially a stone cutter and, by 1740s, a japanner at Birmingham. His successful japanning business, conducted on a very large scale, continued at least until the 1760s. By 1750s had diversified into printing and typefounding and emerged as an innovative, if not overly successful, printer, especially of books. 1758, in addition to his other activities, was appointed printer to Cambridge University. Printing equipment sold on his death. Reckoned one of England's greatest printer of the eighteenth century [2023]
Publications:
- Buildings of John Baskerville in Birmingham by Demidowicz, George
- John Baskerville. A bibliography by Gaskell, Philip
- John Baskerville. A memoir by Straus, Ralph
- John Baskerville. An appreciation by Horrocks, John
- John Baskerville. Art and industry of the Enlightenment by Archer-Parré, Caroline, & Malcolm Dick (eds)
- 'John Baskerville' in T B Reed & A F Johnson, History of the Old English Letter Foundries; with notes, historical and bibliographical, on the rise and fall of English typography. A new edition revised and enlarged by A F Johnson by Reed, Talbot B, & Alfred F Johnson
- John Baskerville of Birmingham. Letter founder and printer by Pardoe, F E
- John Baskerville, printer by Reed, Talbot B
- John Baskerville, the Birmingham Printer. His press, relations and friends by Bennett, William
- John Baskerville. The printer, 1706–1775; his ancestry. A retrospective by Cave, Thomas
- John Baskerville, Type-founder and Printer, 1706-1775 by Benton, Josiah H
- 'John Baskerville, William Hutton and their social networks' in C Archer-Parré & M Dick (eds), John Baskerville. Art and industry of the Enlightenment by Whyman, Susan E
- 'Origins of the great works. Chemicals and japan' in W H B Court, Rise of the Midland Industries, 1600-1838 by Court, W H B
- William Caslon, 1693-1766 . The ancestry, life and connections of England's foremost letter-engraver and type-founder by Ball, Johnson
Groups:
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- Birmingham, Birmingham, West Midlands, West Midlands, England
Sectors:
- Fabricated metal products manufacture Japanned ware production
- Publishing & printing Other printing
- Fabricated metal products manufacture Typefounding
Notes:
John Baskerville, 1706-75, was initially a stone cutter and, by 1740s, a japanner at Birmingham. His successful japanning business, conducted on a very large scale, continued at least until the 1760s. By 1750s had diversified into printing and typefounding and emerged as an innovative, if not overly successful, printer, especially of books. 1758, in addition to his other activities, was appointed printer to Cambridge University. Printing equipment sold on his death. Reckoned one of England's greatest printer of the eighteenth century [2023]Publications:
- Buildings of John Baskerville in Birmingham by Demidowicz, George
- John Baskerville. A bibliography by Gaskell, Philip
- John Baskerville. A memoir by Straus, Ralph
- John Baskerville. An appreciation by Horrocks, John
- John Baskerville. Art and industry of the Enlightenment by Archer-Parré, Caroline, & Malcolm Dick (eds)
- 'John Baskerville' in T B Reed & A F Johnson, History of the Old English Letter Foundries; with notes, historical and bibliographical, on the rise and fall of English typography. A new edition revised and enlarged by A F Johnson by Reed, Talbot B, & Alfred F Johnson
- John Baskerville of Birmingham. Letter founder and printer by Pardoe, F E
- John Baskerville, printer by Reed, Talbot B
- John Baskerville, the Birmingham Printer. His press, relations and friends by Bennett, William
- John Baskerville. The printer, 1706–1775; his ancestry. A retrospective by Cave, Thomas
- John Baskerville, Type-founder and Printer, 1706-1775 by Benton, Josiah H
- 'John Baskerville, William Hutton and their social networks' in C Archer-Parré & M Dick (eds), John Baskerville. Art and industry of the Enlightenment by Whyman, Susan E
- 'Origins of the great works. Chemicals and japan' in W H B Court, Rise of the Midland Industries, 1600-1838 by Court, W H B
- William Caslon, 1693-1766 . The ancestry, life and connections of England's foremost letter-engraver and type-founder by Ball, Johnson