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	John Baskerville - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Baskerville (January 28, 1706 - January 8, 1775) was a printer in Birmingham, a member of the Royal Society of Arts, and an associate of some of the members of the Lunar Society.
		As an atheist, Baskerville was buried, at his own request, in unconsecrated ground in his own garden.
		When a canal was built through the land he was placed in storage in a warehouse for several years before being secretly deposited in the crypt of Christ Church, Birmingham.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Baskerville (315 words)

	More about John Baskerville
		John Baskerville was born in 1706 at Wolverley in Worcestershire.
		John Baskerville was a friend of the Boulton family, and a good friend and mentor to the young Matthew Boulton as he was growing up.
		The bodies in the vaults were removed and Baskerville’s body was reinterred in the Church of England cemetery in Warstone Lane in a vault under the chapel.
	jquarter.members.beeb.net /morejbask.htm (2006 words)

	JOHN BASKERVILLE - LoveToKnow Article on JOHN BASKERVILLE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This list of books issued by Baskerville from his press lends some irony to the allegation that he was a person of no education.
		These books are admirable specimens of typography; and Baskerville is deservedly ranked among the foremost of those who have advanced the art of printing.
		His contemporaries asserted that his books owed more to the quality of the paper and ink than to the type itself, but the difficulty in obtaining specimens from the Baskerville press shows the estimation in which they are now held.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BA/BASKERVILLE_JOHN.htm (329 words)

	John Baskerville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		John Baskerville was actually born in Wolverley, Worcestershire in 1706.
		John Baskerville is famous for his Baskerville font but he also improved the way in which metal type was made.
		John Baskerville died in 1775 and was buried in his garden.
	www.birminghamuk.com /johnbaskerville.htm (343 words)

	John Baskerville (1705-1775)
		John Baskerville started his professional career as a parish school writing master and later became a headstone engraver, two professions which allowed him to demonstrate his manual dexterity and technical proficiency.
		John Baskerville is frequently referred to as the inventor of wove paper, although there is evidence that others used it before him.
		Baskerville invented an ink that was both quick-drying, allowing him to print the reverse sides of his paper faster, and uncommonly rich, fl and lustrous in appearance.
	www.baskerville.it /blibri/JB.html (1353 words)

	John Baskerville font family : MyFonts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		His engraver John Handy was given the task to make the type face different from the then fashionable Caslon, which was a surprise for a certain part of typophiles of the period.
		Baskerville’s production in this way perhaps prepared the public also for some ideas of Bodoni and Didot, which is why nowadays everybody calls it a “ transitory” phenomenon.
		John Baskerville is available in PostScript format and designed for use in sizes larger than 11 point.
	www.myfonts.com /fonts/storm/john-baskerville (820 words)

	Storm Type Foundry/John Sans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		John Sans is to be a modest servant and at the same time an original loudspeaker; it wishes to inhabit libraries of educated persons and to shout from billboards.
		Baskerville cleverly incorporated certain constructional elements in the design of the individual letters of his typeface.
		The features which these new italics and Baskerville have in common are the angle of the slope and the softened sloped strokes of the lower case letters.
	www.stormtype.com /jsans.html (801 words)

	The walk 14: The catacombs
		John Baskerville was a confirmed atheist and, as such, he left strict instructions in his will that on no account was he to be buried in consecrated ground.
		Since nobody claimed the coffin and Baskerville could not be reinterred in consecrated ground on account of his atheism, it was deposited in the warehouse of Thomas Gibson, then owner of the land on which Baskerville's house had stood.
		When Christ Church was demolished in 1899 John Baskerville’s remains, along with the 600 or so other internees of the Christ Church catacombs, were moved in the dead of night to the Warstone Lane catacombs, where he remains to this day, still in the consecrated ground that was anathema to him.
	jquarter.members.beeb.net /walk14.htm (681 words)

	Industry and Genius
		Between the Hall of Memory and Baskerville House, stands a sculptural tribute to John Baskerville.
		Baskerville (1706-75) lived and worked at Easy Hill, a mansion then on the edge of town where Baskerville House (formerly the Civic Centre) stands today.
		The artist is David Patten, born in Birmingham in 1954, and the monument was placed in Centenary Square in 1990 as part of the ICC 'Percentage for Art scheme'.
	www.birmingham.gov.uk /baskerville (180 words)

	AllRefer.com - John Baskerville (Libraries, Books, And Printing, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		This style influenced that of the Didot family in France and that of Bodoni in Italy.
		Books printed by Baskerville are typically large, with wide margins, made with excellent paper and ink.
		Among Baskerville's publications in the British Museum are Aesop's Fables (1761), the Bible (1763), and the works of Horace (1770).
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/Baskervi.html (318 words)

	BBC - Hereford and Worcester Culture - The House of the Baskerville
		It was the home of a famous atheist, John Baskerville, who made his money from printing bibles.
		His name was Baskerville, but he wasn't the one who was killed by the hound.
		John Baskerville brought the famous carved panelling to the house from Tickenhall Palace which was the home of Prince Arthur, the brother of Henry 8th.
	www.bbc.co.uk /herefordandworcester/culture/2003/10/baskerville.shtml (287 words)

	Emigre Font Design Information: Mrs Eaves
		The critic said that Baskerville's types would be 'the means of blinding all the readers in the nation owing to the thin and narrow strokes of the letters.' Franklin gave the critic a specimen of Caslon's types with Caslon's name removed, said it was Baskerville's and asked for a specific criticism.
		Baskerville's work has in retrospect been classified as the ultimate transitional typeface, being pivotal between old style typefaces, and the modern typefaces that followed.
		To a great degree, the critics were wrong; it did not prevent Baskerville from becoming assimilated as a highly legible text face, and in fact, the high contrast between stems and hairlines became quite desirable, as is apparent in typefaces such as Bodoni, which followed in the lineage.
	www.emigre.com /EFfeature.php?di=109 (1001 words)

	John Baskerville
		John Baskerville was a printer in 18th century Birmingham, and an associate of some of the members of the Lunar Society.
		Although his work was criticised by jealous competitors and soon fell out of favour, since the 1920s many new fonts[?] have been released by Linotype, Monotype[?], and other typefoundries[?] - revivals of his work and mostly called 'Baskerville'.
		The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/jo/John_Baskerville.html (95 words)

	Storm Type Foundry/John Baskerville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Our pursuit of this paramount body type face of the 20th century began in Nove Hrady Castle, the place where a part of the depository of old prints of the National Museum Library is kept, in the summer of 1999.
		When digitalizing the type face, we did not have at our disposal a complete alphabet - partly because Baskerville did not solve some of the signs (some of them did not even exist at the time), partly because we were loath to go to Cambridge where the greater part of the original punches is deposited.
		Baskerville is a type face with the character of a gentleman, a type face of sober elegance and clear design.
	www.stormtype.com /jbasker.html (715 words)

	Occasional Paper No. 6 - Section 1
		This is John Kay's caricature of one of the geniuses behind the second edition (1776) of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Andrew Bell was famous not only for his tiny body and enormous nose, but also for his engraving skills and publishing enterprise.
		John Murray I, the founder of the Murray dynasty, is a prime example of the wandering Scots who played such an important part in London publishing in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
		John MacMurray, who later renamed himself John Murray, bought the business of William Sandby, No.32 Fleet St. He was the father of John Murray II, "the Anax of Publishers" (Byron).
	www.ucalgary.ca /library/SpecColl/OccPaper/section1.html (716 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		First Baskerville Edition, with all of the usual (and none of the uncommon) cancels as listed by Gaskell; this copy with S4 (and not T1) a cancel, line 457, "Ad soceros, et avo puerum Astyanacta trahebat" deleted from bottom of p.
		According to Gaskell, "Baskerville's first and perhaps his finest book." The copy at hand is particularly beautiful, the handsome period binding of red morocco being subtly echoed in the red ruling around the text and plates.
		The plates, supplied from John Ogilby's 1654 translation of Virgil, were executed by the renowned copper engravers Wenceslaus Hollar, Pierre Lombart, and William Faithorne from the original drawings of Francis Cleyn.
	www.rspbooks.com /Libros/libro1_10.html (379 words)

	John Baskerville ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		John Sartain, Portrait of John A. Sutter, 1850
		John Nicholson (Hannah Duncan) and John Nicholson, Jr.
		John James Audubon, Douglass" Squirrel, a study for pl. 48 ofViviparous Quadripeds of North America by John James Audubon and Rev. John Bachman (New York: John James Audubon, 1845-1848), circa 1843
	wwar.com /masters/b/baskerville-john.html (538 words)

	Baskerville, John -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Baskerville became a writing master at Birmingham but in 1740 established a japanning (varnishing) business, whose profits enabled him to experiment in typefounding.
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	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9013634 (710 words)

	The 1662 Book of Common Prayer
		Of these many printings, only a few stand out, chief among which are a series done by John Baskerville between 1760 and 1762.
		Baskerville was one of the giants of English typography, making a number of innovations, including the Baskerville typeface still in use today.
		The font used is John Baskerville, from Storm Foundries, which is very close to the original and includes all the characters used in this book.
	justus.anglican.org /resources/bcp/1662/baskerville.htm (394 words)

	No. 1761: John Baskerville
		Baskerville was forty-four when he took up the business for which he's known today.
		When the church was razed, Baskerville was moved from that consecrated spot to Warstone Lane Catacombs, a consecrated labyrinth where he remains today.
		I was first led to Baskerville by F. Romano's entertaining article The Strange Tale of Baskerville's Body.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi1761.htm (590 words)

	Directory - Arts: Graphic Design: Typography: Typographers: Masters: Baskerville, John
		Born in 1706 in Worcestershire, England, John Baskerville was a writing master, stonecutter, letter designer, typefounder and printer.
		John Baskerville · cached · Reproduction of fl-and-white sketch of the artist.
		John Baskerville Type Design · Profiles and biographies of John Baskerville from About.com.
	www.incywincy.com /default?p=555717 (120 words)

	John Baskerville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		He directed his punchcutter John Handy in the design of many typefaces of broadlysimilar appearance.
		He printedworks for Cambridge University in 1758 and although an atheist, printed a splendid folio Bible in 1763.
		It is thought that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who once lived inBirmingham, may have borrowed his name for one of his Sherlock Holmes stories, The Hound of theBaskervilles.
	www.therfcc.org /john-baskerville-75731.html (245 words)

	The Classic Text: The Bible (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		t one time a servant in a clergyman's house, John Baskerville became a skilled writing master, stonecutter, successful manufacturer of japanned ware, and finally was able to fulfill his life-long calling by opening his own printshop at the late age of fifty.
		One critic complained, "the Greek cut by him or HIS for the University of Oxford is execrable." Although neat and clean, his type deviated from the accepted aesthetic models and scale of the day, and was said to have a cramped quality.
		The work was perhaps judged unfairly, as Baskerville had intended his Greek Bible to be a scholarly work, rather than a "distinguished book" on the level of his Cambridge Bible.
	www.uwm.edu /Dept/Library/special/exhibits/clastext/clspg012.htm (223 words)

	Highlights of collectible and antiquarian books from Randall House
		The 1763 Bible was John Baskerville’s magnum opus and has been described by Reed as his “most magnificent as well as his most characteristic specimen”.
		The Bible was printed in Baskerville’s Great Primer type, a handsome font distinguished by its slender and delicate form which combines both clarity and elegance.
		Although the Baskerville Bible is now recognized as an artistic and typographical success, it was initially a finacial failure.
	www.randallhouserarebooks.com /indbooks/Baskerville.html (277 words)

	Grandes maestros. John Baskerville
		John Baskerville nació en 1706 en Sion Hill, Worcester (Inglaterra).
		John Baskerville falleció el 8 de enero de 1775.
		Los tipos de Baskerville no se ganaron el favor de los impresores ingleses y desaparecieron en un oscuro túnel por más de 150 años hasta que el diseñador americano Bruce Rogers los rescató del olvido reeditándolos para Monotype en 1924 y para Linotype en 1931.
	www.unostiposduros.com /paginas/maes13.html (374 words)

	The Birmingham Post (England): Archive: Wolverley's man of letters; Modern printing techniques were nurtured in the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Archive: Wolverley's man of letters; Modern printing techniques were nurtured in the Renaissance cities of Venice, Florence and Antwerp, but a Worcestershire village also played its part, for it was home to John Baskerville.
		With the advent of the word processor almost everyone (including the buyer of car number plates) knows that arial is not the same as times roman, and italic does not look nice next to helvetica.
		In that case John Baskerville is probably due a spot of posthumous fame beyond that usually accorded to printers, for Baskerville is arguably the greatest printer these islands have ever produced, a man who could rub...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:76840526&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (249 words)

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		This 5 page paper looks at the life and work of the British scientist John Frederic Daniell (1790 — 1845), tracing his life from birth to death and explaining his notable and important achievements including his work on batteries and the development of the Daniell Cell Battery.
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		A 5 page overview of the life and contributions of John W. Gardner, former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare; a former U.S. Marine Corps intelligence officer; prolific writer who has concentrated on human resource development and organizational development.
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	John Baskerville, Typograph [ Biographie ] : Lexikon der Typographie [ Typografie ] von Wolfgang Beinert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Dafür mischte Baskerville eine spezielle Druckerschwärze und optimierte den Druckvorgang durch den Einbau von beheizten Kupferzylindern, die ein rasches Trocknen seiner tiefschwarzen Opak-Tinte bewirkten und folglich besonders exakte Konturen und ein klares Gesamtschriftbild gewährleisteten.
		Als John Baskerville 1775 erbenlos starb, wurde der deklarierte Atheist wunschgemäß von seiner Lebensgefährtin Sarah Eaves in einem kleinen Mausoleum im acht Morgen großen Park seines feudalen Anwesens beigesetzt.
		Nachdem mehrere Pfarreien eine Wiederbestattung in geweihter Erde verweigert hatten, wurde der wohlmumifizierte Leichnam Baskervilles unter anderem in den beiden größten Warenhäusern von Birmingham einem staunenden und zahlenden Publikum zur Schau gestellt.
	www.typolexikon.de /b/baskerville-john.html (514 words)

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