John Baskerville by Caroline Archer-Parr, Malcolm Dick - 9781800856837

John BaskervilleArt and Industry in the Enlightenment\nAuthor(s): Caroline Archer-Parr, Malcolm Dick\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Liverpool University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Liverpool University Press\nISBN-13: 9781800856837, 978-1800856837\nSynopsis\nThis book is concerned with the eighteenth-century typographer, printer, industrialist and Enlightenment figure, John Baskerville [tel]. Baskerville was a Birmingham 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. Baskerville not only designed one of the worlds most historically important typefaces, he also experimented with casting and setting type, improved the construction of the printing-press, developed a new kind of paper and refined the quality of printing inks. His typographic experiments put him ahead of his time, had an international impact and did much to enhance the printing and publishing .