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¶ John Baskerville (1706-75), of Birmingham, England, a writing-master, with a special renown for cutting inscriptions in stone, began experimenting about 1750 with punch-cutting and making typographical material.
This Simian World Clarence Day 1904
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John Baskerville was born in 1706 at Wolverley, a village in
A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898 Henry R. Plomer 1901
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Whatever passed through his fingers, bore the lively marks of John Baskerville.
An History of Birmingham (1783) William Hutton 1769
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Mr. Garfield then introduces the designers of beautiful fonts that are still used today, such as Claude Garamond in 16th-century France, William Caslon and John Baskerville in
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