John Baskerville : art and industry in the enlightenment /

"This book is concerned with the eighteenth-century typographer, printer, industrialist and Enlightenment figure, John Baskerville (1707-75). Baskerville was a Birmingham inventor, entrepreneur and artist with a worldwide reputation who made eighteenth-century Birmingham a city without typograp...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Archer-Parre, Caroline (Autor), Dick, Malcolm (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2017.
Colección:Eighteenth-century worlds.
Temas:
Baskerville, John, > 1706-1775.
Baskerville, John, > 1706-1775
Printers > Great Britain.
Type and type-founding > Great Britain.
Imprimeurs > Grande-Bretagne.
HISTORY > Modern > 18th Century.
CRAFTS & HOBBIES > Book Printing & Binding.
DESIGN > Book.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Technical & Manufacturing Industries & Trades.
Printers
Type and type-founding
Great Britain
collective biographies.
Biographies
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of Figures vii
  • Acknowledgements xi
  • Foreword xiii
  • Timeline xv
  • Baskerville Family Tree xvii
  • Introduction: John Baskerville: Art and Industry of the Enlightenment; Caroline Archer-Parre and Malcolm Dick
  • The Topographies of a Typographer: Mapping John Baskerville since the Eighteenth Century; Malcolm Dick
  • Baskerville's Birmingham: Printing and the English Urban Renaissance; John Hinks
  • Place, Home and Workplace: Baskerville's Birthplace and Buildings; George Demidowicz
  • John Baskerville: Japanner of 'Tea Trays and other Household Goods'; Yvonne Jones
  • John Baskerville, William Hutton and their Social Networks; Susan Whyman
  • John Baskerville the Writing Master: Calligraphy and Typein the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries; Ewan Clayton
  • A Reappraisal of Baskerville's Greek Types; Gerry Leonidas
  • John Baskerville's Decorated Papers; Barry McKay and Diana Patterson
  • The 'Baskerville Bindings'; Aurelie Martin
  • After the 'Perfect Book': English Printers and their Use of Baskerville's Type, 1767-90; Martin Killeen
  • The Cambridge Cult of the Baskerville Press; Caroline Archer-Parre
  • The 'Baskerville Bindings'
  • Members of the Baskerville Club
  • Comparative Bibliography
  • Further Reading
  • General Bibliography
  • Notes on the Contributors
  • Index.

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