JOHN BASKERVILLE 1. BACKGROUND

JOHN BASKERVILLE

CONTENT

1. BACKGROUND

2. CONTRIBUTIONS

3. PUBLISHED WORKS

4. REFERENCES

1BACKGROUND

John Baskerville (1706-1775)

He was an English businessman in areas including japanning and papier-mâché , but he was best remembered as a type designer, writing master and self- taught printer.

He was a member of the Royal Society of Arts and also an associate of some of the members of the Lunar Society.

BACKGROUND

Baskerville also was responsible for significant innovations in printing, paper and ink production.

John Baskerville’s handwriting

BACKGROUND 2CONTRIBUTIONS

In 1754, John Baskerville designed a new typeface bearing his name “Baskerville”.

Baskerville typeface

CONTRIBUTIONS

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

0123456789

CONTRIBUTIONS

OLD STYLEGaramond

TRANSITIONAL STYLEBaskerville

MODERN STYLEBodoni

CONTRIBUTIONS

Hand-carving Baskerville on a headstone for John Baskerville by Gabriel Hummerston

CONTRIBUTIONS

CONTRIBUTIONS

Whatman handmade paper

3PUBLISHED

WORKS

The 1757quarto edition of the works of Virgil

John Milton's Paradise Lost (1758)

The works of Joseph Addison (1761)

Baskerville's 1763 Bible

The 1766 translation of Virgil into English, by Robert Andrews

PUBLISHED WORKS

4REFERENCES

• Benton, Josiah Henry (1914). John Baskerville: Type- founder and 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