JOHN

BASKERVILLE

CONTENT

1. BACKGROUND

2. CONTRIBUTIONS

3. PUBLISHED WORKS

4. REFERENCES

1BACKGROUND

TYPE DESIGNER

John Baskerville (1706-1775)

WRITING MASTER

PRINTER

BUSSINESSMAN

ROYAL SOCIETY OF ARTS

LUNAR SOCIETY

UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

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OLD STYLEGaramond

TRANSITIONAL STYLEBaskerville

MODERN STYLEBodoni

2CONTRIBUTIONS

3PUBLISHED WORKS

• Benton, Josiah Henry (1914). John Baskerville: Typefounderand Printer, 1706-1775. Boston: The Merrymount Press.• Gaskell, Philip (1973). John Baskerville: A Bibliography.Paul P. B. Minet.• Sutton, James; Sutton, Alan (1988). An Atlas of Typeforms.Wordsworth Editions. p. 59• http://idsgn.org/posts/know-your-type-baskerville/• https://blogs.princeton.edu/graphicarts/2010/01/the_basker-ville_virgil.html

4REFERENCES