John Baskerville

Caroline Archer-Parré is Professor of Typography at Birmingham City University, Director of the Centre for Printing History & Culture and Chairman of the Baskerville Society. She is the author of The Kynoch Press, 1876-1982: the anatomy of a printing house, (British Library, 2000); Paris Underground (MBP, 2004); and Tart cards: London’s illicit advertising art (MBP, 2003). Caroline is currently Co-investigator on the AHRC-funded project, ‘Letterpress Printing: past, present, future’. Malcolm Dick is Director of the Centre for West Midlands History at the University of Birmingham. He directed two history projects in Birmingham between 2000 and 2004: the Millennibrum Project, which created a multi-media archive of post-1945 Birmingham history and Revolutionary Players which produced an online resource of the history of the West Midlands region. Malcolm has published books on Joseph Priestley, Matthew Boulton and the history of Birmingham and co-directs the Centre for Printing History & Culture.

• List of Figures vii Acknowledgements xi Foreword xiii Timeline xvBaskerville Family Tree xviiIntroduction: John Baskerville: Art and Industry of the Enlightenment 1 Caroline Archer-Parré and Malcolm Dick 1 The Topographies of a Typographer: Mapping John Baskerville since the Eighteenth Century 9 Malcolm Dick 2 Baskerville’s Birmingham: Printing and the English Urban Renaissance 25 John Hinks 3 Place, Home and Workplace: Baskerville’s Birthplace and Buildings 42 George Demidowicz 4 John Baskerville: Japanner of ‘Tea Trays and other Household Goods’ 71 Yvonne Jones 5 John Baskerville, William Hutton and their Social Networks 87 Susan Whyman 6 John Baskerville the Writing Master: Calligraphy and Type in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 113 Ewan Clayton 7 A Reappraisal of Baskerville’s Greek Types 133 Gerry Leonidas 8 John Baskerville’s Decorated Papers 151 Barry McKay and Diana Patterson 9 The ‘Baskerville Bindings’ 166 Aurélie Martin 10 After the ‘Perfect Book’: English Printers and their Use of Baskerville’s Type, 1767–90 185 Martin Killeen 11 The Cambridge Cult of the Baskerville Press 206 Caroline Archer-Parré Appendix 1 The ‘Baskerville Bindings’ 222 Appendix 2 Members of the Baskerville Club 226 Appendix 3 Comparative Bibliography 230 Further Reading 248 General Bibliography 255 Notes on the Contributors 260 Index 263

'Due to the variety of its chapters, and the depth of their investigations, John Baskerville: Art and Industry of the Enlightenment is a most welcome title, and one can only hope that it may be the first in what will become a series of 'Baskerville studies' addressing a range of topics from authors in a variety of fields.'Dan Reynolds, Journal of the Printing Historical Society