Baskerville
[bas-ker-vil]
- John,1706–75, English typographer and manufacturer of lacquered ware.
- a style of type.
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Historical Examples
But there are also other features of excellence about these books of Baskerville's.
A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898Henry R. Plomer
The text of this book was set on the linotype in Baskerville.
This Simian WorldClarence Day
The book showed that two names had been added after that of Baskerville.
The Hound of the BaskervillesA. Conan Doyle
My own was in the same wing as Baskerville's and almost next door to it.
The Hound of the BaskervillesA. Conan Doyle
"And I went to look at the folk in the park," said Baskerville.
The Hound of the BaskervillesA. Conan Doyle
Baskerville
- a style of type
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Word Origin
C18: named after John Baskerville (1706–1775), English printer
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Word Origin and History for baskerville
Baskerville
typeface style, 1802 (the type was created in the 1750s), named for John Baskerville (1706-1775), British type-founder and printer.
The initial version were cut by John Handy under Baskerville's watchful eye. The result is the epitome of Neoclassicism and eighteenth-century rationalism in type -- a face far more popular in Republican France and the American colonies than in eighteenth-century England, where it was made. [Robert Bringhurst, "The Elements of Typographic Style," 1992]
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