Baskerville was a wealthy industrialist, who had started his career as a writing-master (teacher of calligraphy) and carver of gravestones, before making a fortune as a manufacturer of …

Jan 4, 2026 · John Baskerville was an English printer and creator of a typeface of great distinction bearing his name, whose works are among the finest examples of the art of printing.

Baskerville not only created one of the world’s most historically important typefaces, but he also experimented with casting and setting type, improved the construction of the printing press, …

Baskervville is a revival of Jacob’s revival of Baskerville’s typeface. It was distributed by the Berger-Levrault Foundry from 1815. The font Jacob produced was sold as a “Caractères dans …

BASKERVILLE, with its well-considered ‘proportions and design, its methods of thickening or thinning parts of a letter, and its sharper and more horizontal treatment of serifs’, is one of the …

John Baskerville was an innovative printer, engraver, and typographer who gained recognition in the late 1750s for his editions of the works of Virgil and John Milton. In 1758, he was …

Mar 13, 2024 · John Baskerville was an English printer, typefounder, and businessman, born in Wolverly, Worcestershire in 1707. Early on in life, Baskerville developed a keen interest in …

John Baskerville was an influential English entrepreneur and printer born in the early 18th century, whose innovations in typography and printing transformed the book industry.

John Baskerville (baptised 28 January 1707 – 8 January 1775) was an English businessman, in areas including japanning and papier-mâché, but he is best remembered as a printer and type …

Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set largely in Dartmoor, Devon, in England's West Country and follows Holmes and Watson investigating …