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John Baskerville

28 January 1706–8 January 1775

40 works

1754–1765 across 4 dated works

An English businessman, in areas including japanning and papier-mâché, but he is best remembered as a printer and type designer (<a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Baskerville>Wikipedia).

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Publii Virgilii Maronis Bucolica Georgica et Aeneis ...: John Baskerville proposes ... to print ... an elegant edition of Virgil ...1754
A specimen1757
specimen1757
A vocabulary or pocket dictionary1765

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One Beautiful Woman: One Hundred and One Pictures2003
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A specimen by John Baskerville of Birmingham ...
Recorded as 1762; date may be inaccurate
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A specimen of Baskerville's types.1949
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A Specimen of printing letter designed by John Baskerville about the year MDCCLVII: recut by the Lanston Monotype Corporation Limited for use on the "Monotype".1926
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A specimen of printing letter1926
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Specimens of printing types1939
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A vocabulary or pocket dictionary1765
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Some correspondence concerning the making of printing type / by John Baskerville of Birmingham1991
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A specimen of printing letter1926
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specimen1757
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Publii Virgilii Maronis Bucolica Georgica et Aeneis ...: John Baskerville proposes ... to print ... an elegant edition of Virgil ...1754
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Two new books for the Bible!: announcing the theoretical discovery of Logia, the earliest gospel and Biblos, the third earliest gospel1957
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Two new books for the Bible! announcing the theoretical discovery of Logia, the earliest gospel and Biblos, the third earliest gospel1957
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Some correspondence concerning the making of printing type / by John Baskerville of Birmingham1991
With Hand Press (Zurich)
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Specimens of printing types ... in facsimile1939
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A specimen1757
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Letters of the famous 18th century printer John Baskerville of Birmingham1932
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Proposals for printing by subscription, a complete edition of the works of Voltaire printed with the types of Baskerville, for the Literary and typographical society1782
With Voltaire
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Novum Testamentum juxta exemplar Millianum1763
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Specimen of the 4° Virgil, with proposals, 1754.1754
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John Baskerville on printing & letter founding.1963
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A specimen by John Baskerville of Birmingham in the County of Warwick, Letter-Founder and Printer.1754
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A letter to the Royal academy of sciences, Paris1957
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A vocabulary, or pocket dictionary: To which is prefixed, a compendious grammar of the English language.1766
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