John Baskerville —— Art and Industry of the Englightenment

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ISBN: 9781786940643 出版年：2018 页码：288 Liverpool University Press

The eighteenth-century typographer, printer, industrialist and Enlightenment figure, John Baskerville (1707-75) was an 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. This publication explores Baskerville in his social and economic context and evaluates his impact.