John Baskerville : art and industry of the Enlightenment /

John Baskerville : art and industry of the Enlightenment /

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Imprint:	Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2017. ©2017
Description:	xvii, 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Eighteenth-Century Worlds Eighteenth-century worlds.
Subject:	Baskerville, John, -- 1706-1775. Baskerville, John, -- 1706-1775. Printers -- England -- Birmingham -- Biography. Type and type-founding -- Great Britain. Printers. Type and type-founding. Birmingham (England) -- History -- 18th century. England -- Birmingham. Great Britain. Biography. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11386341

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Varying Form of Title:	Art and industry of the Enlightenment
Other authors / contributors:	Archer, Caroline, 1961- author, editor. Dick, Malcolm, author, editor. Uglow, Jennifer S., writer of foreword.
ISBN:	9781786940643 1786940647
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-259) and index.
Summary:	"This book is concerned with the eighteenth-century typographer, printer, industrialist and Enlightenment figure, John Baskerville (1707-75). Baskerville was a Birmingham inventor, entrepreneur and artist with a worldwide reputation who made eighteenth-century Birmingham a city without typographic equal, by changing the course of type design. Baskerville not only designed one of the world's most historically important typefaces, he also experimented with casting and setting type, improved the construction of the printing press, developed a new kind of paper and refined the quality of printing inks. His typographic experiments put him ahead of his time, had an international impact and did much to enhance the printing and publishing industries of his day. Yet despite his importance, fame and influence many aspects of Baskerville's work and life remain unexplored and his contribution to the arts, industry, culture and society of the Enlightenment are largely unrecognized."--

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