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Title John Baskerville : art and industry of the Enlightenment / Caroline Archer-Parré and Malcolm Dick
Published Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
Series Eighteenth-century worlds
Eighteenth-century worlds.
Summary The eighteenth-century typographer, printer, industrialist and Enlightenment figure, John Baskerville (1707-75) was an inventor, entrepreneur and artist with a worldwide reputation who made eighteenth-century Birmingham a city without typographic equal, by changing the course of type design. This volume explores Baskerville in his social and economic context and evaluates his impact
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Audience Specialized
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 19, 2019)
Subject Baskerville, John, 1706-1775.
SUBJECT Baskerville, John, 1706-1775. fast (OCoLC)fst00078988
Subject Printers -- England -- Birmingham -- Biography
Printers -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
Type and type-founding -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
Printers.
Type and type-founding.
England -- Birmingham.
Great Britain.
Genre/Form Biographies.
History.
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Archer-Parré, Caroline, editor
Dick, Malcolm, editor
ISBN 9781786945143
1786945142
1786948605
9781786948601