John Baskerville : type-founder and printer, 1706-1775 /

John Baskerville : type-founder and printer, 1706-1775 /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Benton, Josiah H. (Josiah Henry), 1843-1917.
Imprint:	New York : Printed for The Typophiles, 1944.
Description:	xxviii, 101 p. : front., ill., facsims ; 19 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Typophile chap books ; 11.
Subject:	Baskerville, John, -- 1706-1775. Baskerville, John, -- 1706-1775. Early printed books. Printers. Printing. Type and type-founding. Type designers. England. Great Britain. Bibliography. Biography. History.
Format:	Print Book
Local Note:	University of Chicago Library's copy in Rare is no.422 of an edition of 625 copies printed. University of Chicago Library's copy in Rare once formed part of the R.R. Donnelley and Co. Training Department Library. Donnelley #377.
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1046931

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Other authors / contributors:	Haraszti, Zoltán, 1892-1980 Typophiles (New York, N.Y.) R.R. Donnelley and Sons Company. Training Department Library
Notes:	"New edition ... First read ... before the Society of Printers in Boston, February 24, 1914." --Foreword. "This eleventh Chap Book in the Typophile series has been designed by Fred Anthoensen, set in Linotype Baskerville, and printed by the Southworth-Anthoensen Press, Portland, Maine. The collotype reproductions are by the Meriden Gravure Company, the binding by John W. March of Portland. Of the 625 copies printed, 300 are for subscribers (numbered 1 to 300), 75 for contributors, and 250 (numbered 301 to 550) for general sale by the Southworth-Anthoesen Press." --Colophon.

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Call Number:	Z232.B2B4 1944
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