John Baskerville, type-founder and printer, 1706-1775

Name: John Baskerville, type-founder and printer, 1706-1775
Author: Jr. (Josiah Henry) Josiah H. Benton

by Jr. (Josiah Henry) Josiah H. Benton

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Description

Based on a paper prepared and read at a meeting of the Boston Society of Printers, Feb. 24, 1914. See "Note."

Details

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Duration

~2 hours (121K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Original publisher

United States: The Merrymount Press, 1914.

Credits

The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Release date

2023-06-30

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Printers -- Great Britain -- Biography Baskerville, John, 1706-1775 Printing -- England -- Birmingham -- History -- 18th century Early printed books -- England -- Birmingham -- 18th century -- Bibliography Type and type founding -- England -- History -- 18th century Birmingham (England) -- Biography Birmingham (England) -- Imprints

About the author

Jr. (Josiah Henry) Josiah H. Benton

1843–1917

A Boston lawyer and historical writer, he turned legal questions, local history, and Civil War politics into books that still reward curious readers. His work ranges from New England civic history to the mechanics of voting in the field during the Civil War.

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