Author : Caroline Archer-Parré
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 34,32 MB
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1786948605
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.
Author : Josiah Henry Benton
Publisher :
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 45,8 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Printing
ISBN :
Author : Philip Gaskell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 46,78 MB
Release : 2011-04-14
Category : Design
ISBN : 0521170729
This 1959 bibliography lists and describes everything that came from the press of John Baskerville of Birmingham, who was appointed Printer to the University of Cambridge in 1758. After an introduction in which Dr Gaskell describes the methods that he has adopted and the conclusions that he has drawn from the investigation, there are two main parts: Specimens, Proposals and other Ephemera, and Books. Each entry contains a quasi-facsimile transcription of the title page, and gives details of formula contents amongst several other things. This, which was the first full bibliography of Baskerville's work, will be an essential tool for Baskerville collectors and for historians of printing and typography as well as for bibliographers. There are twelve collotype plates, most of which illustrate unique copies of Baskerville's ephemera; and there is in addition a full-size facsimile of Baskerville's last type specimen.
Author : Frank Ernest Pardoe
Publisher : London : F. Muller
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 31,87 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : John O'Connell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 48,19 MB
Release : 2013-06-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1476730237
Dartmoor, 1900. Two friends are roaming the moors: Arthur Conan Doyle-who has recently killed off his most popular creation, Sherlock Holmes; and Bertram Fletcher Robinson-Holmes aficionado and editor of the Daily Express. They are researching a detective novel, a collaboration starring a new hero, set in the eerie stillness of ancient West Country moorland. London, 1902. The Hound of the Baskervilles is published, featuring Sherlock Holmes back from the dead. Conan Doyle and Fletcher Robinson have not spoken for two years and the book is credited to just one author. It will become one of the most famous stories ever written. But who really wrote it? And what really happened on the moors, to drive the two friends apart?
Author : Simon Garfield
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 31,88 MB
Release : 2010-10-21
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1847652921
Just My Type is not just a font book, but a book of stories. About how Helvetica and Comic Sans took over the world. About why Barack Obama opted for Gotham, while Amy Winehouse found her soul in 30s Art Deco. About the great originators of type, from Baskerville to Zapf, or people like Neville Brody who threw out the rulebook, or Margaret Calvert, who invented the motorway signs that are used from Watford Gap to Abu Dhabi. About the pivotal moment when fonts left the world of Letraset and were loaded onto computers ... and typefaces became something we realised we all have an opinion about. As the Sunday Times review put it, the book is 'a kind of Eats, Shoots and Leaves for letters, revealing the extent to which fonts are not only shaped by but also define the world in which we live.' This edition is available with both black and silver covers.
Author : Birmingham Public Libraries
Publisher :
Page : 1158 pages
File Size : 14,77 MB
Release : 1918
Category : Birmingham (Ala.)
ISBN :
Author : Pentagram Design
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 21,2 MB
Release : 2006-12-28
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780811855631
Celebrated global design firm Pentagram has produced a series of signature annual documents, known as Pentagram Papers, exclusively for clients and colleagues since 1975. On the occasion of the firm's 35-year anniversary, these quirky and influential Papers are collected here together for the first time. Each Paper explores a unique and curious topic of interest to the Pentagram designersMao buttons, the Savoy ballroom, rural Australian mailboxes, and the pop architecture of Wildwood, New Jersey, have all been featured subjects. Included here are not only in-depth reproductions and detailed discussion of the Papers' origins, but also an exclusive new Paper created especially for the book and set into a tray inside its back cover.
Author : Simon Garfield
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 21,42 MB
Release : 2024-10-22
Category : Design
ISBN : 1324086211
A compact and charming history of the classic Enlightenment font by the New York Times best-selling author of Just My Type. When Baskerville was first created in 1757, there was concern that it would damage readers’ eyes with its combination of thin and thick strokes and tapering serifs. Yet 250 years later, it remains one of the most commonly used typefaces in books of all kinds. As best-selling author Simon Garfield tells it, the tale of this elegant typeface is one of painstaking dedication. The font’s creator, John Baskerville, was a maverick lacquer maker and master printer who made it his life’s mission to achieve the font’s perfection. His efforts culminated in his magnificent Bible, acclaimed as the finest ever made. Garfield explores why Baskerville’s own body was dug up and buried many times before finally being allowed to rest in peace, and examines his legacy through the work of his wife, Sarah Baskerville—one of the first powerful women in the printing world—and the archivists and enthusiasts working to preserve the font’s original steel punches today.
Author : Leslie Stephen
Publisher :
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 12,24 MB
Release : 1885
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
