Baskerville
Baskerville Roman      Baskerville Italic      Baskerville Bold      Baskerville Bold Italic	$99.00

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Design Credits

First seen on MyFonts: January 1st, 2000
Designed by: John Baskerville, George William Jones
Contained in Categories: Legible, Transitional
MyFonts Keywords: 1700s, 1970s, 1990s, Baskerville, book, book text, canon, elegant, English, feminine, fiction, formal, german, legible, modern style, neutral, poetry, roman serif, sensible, serif, static, technical, transitional, valuable

Baskerville

John Baskerville spared no effort to create the ultimate typographic book. He prepared deep black inks and smoothed paper to show to full effect the letters that he had John Handy cut from his own brilliant designs, based on a lifetime of calligraphy and stonecutting. Punches and matrices survive at the Cambridge University Press.

The present design is an accurate recutting, with particular attention to George W. Jones’ revision from the metal of Baskerville’s English (14pt) roman and italic in 1929 for Linotype & Machinery Ltd; Mergenthaler Linotype imported this design to the USA two years later.

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