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Author : Frank Ernest Pardoe
Publisher : London : F. Muller
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book John Baskerville of Birmingham written by Frank Ernest Pardoe and published by London : F. Muller. This book was released on 1975 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Josiah Henry Benton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book John Baskerville written by Josiah Henry Benton and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Caroline Archer-Parré
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1786948605
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (869 download)
Download or read book John Baskerville written by Caroline Archer-Parré and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Philip Gaskell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521170729
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)
Download or read book John Baskerville: A Bibliography written by Philip Gaskell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-14 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Caroline Archer-Parré
Publisher : Eighteenth Century Worlds Lup
ISBN 13 : 1789622301
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)
Download or read book Pen, Print and Communication in the Eighteenth Century written by Caroline Archer-Parré and published by Eighteenth Century Worlds Lup. This book was released on 2020 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the eighteenth century there was a growing interest in recording, listing and documenting the world, whether for personal interest and private consumption, or general record and the greater good. Such documentation was done through both the written and printed word. Each genre had its own material conventions and spawned industries which supported these practices. This volume considers writing and printing in parallel: it highlights the intersections between the two methods of communication; discusses the medium and materiality of the message; considers how writing and printing were deployed in the construction of personal and cultural identities; and explores the different dimensions surrounding the production, distribution and consumption of private and public letters, words and texts during the eighteenth-century. In combination the chapters in this volume consider how the processes of both writing and printing contributed to the creation of cultural identity and taste, assisted in the spread of knowledge and furthered personal, political, economic, social and cultural change in Britain and the wider-world. This volume provides an original narrative on the nature of communication and brings a fresh perspective on printing history, print culture and the literate society of the Enlightenment.
Author : Josiah H. Benton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110807622X
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)
Download or read book John Baskerville, Type-Founder and Printer, 1706–1775 written by Josiah H. Benton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1914 biography of John Baskerville, type-founder and printer, was written by Josiah Benton, an American lawyer and author.
Author : Carl Chinn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781781382479
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (824 download)
Download or read book Birmingham written by Carl Chinn and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new, factually rich and visually stunning publication is the first major history of Birmingham for more than four decades.
Author : Ralph Straus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book John Baskerville written by Ralph Straus and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Simon Garfield
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1324086211
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Baskerville: The Biography of a Typeface (The ABC of Fonts Series) written by Simon Garfield and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2024-10-22 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Susan E. Whyman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192518704
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book The Useful Knowledge of William Hutton written by Susan E. Whyman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Useful Knowledge of William Hutton shows the rapid rise of a self-taught workman and the growing prominence of the city of Birmingham during the two major events of the eighteenth-century - the Industrial Revolution and the Enlightenment. Hutton achieved wealth, land, status, and literary fame, but later became a victim of violent riots. The book boldly claims that an understanding of the Industrial Revolution requires engagement with the figure of the 'rough diamond', a person of worth and character, but lacking in manners, education, and refinement. A cast of unpolished entrepreneurs is brought to life as they drive economic and social change, and improve their towns and themselves. The book also contends that the rise of Birmingham cannot be understood without accepting that its vibrant cultural life was a crucial factor that spurred economic growth. Readers are plunged into a hidden provincial world marked by literacy, bookshops, printing, authorship, and the spread of useful knowledge. We see that ordinary people read history and wrote poetry, whilst they grappled with the effects of industrial change. Newly discovered memoirs reveal social conflict and relationships in rare detail. They also address the problems of social mobility, income inequality, and breath-taking technological change that continue to perplex us today.
Author : David McKitterick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521308021
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (8 download)
Download or read book A History of Cambridge University Press: Volume 2, Scholarship and Commerce, 1698-1872 written by David McKitterick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume of the history of Cambridge University Press covering the 1690s to 1872.
Author : Paul E. Kerry
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson
ISBN 13 : 1611470293
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)
Download or read book Benjamin Franklin's Intellectual World written by Paul E. Kerry and published by Fairleigh Dickinson. This book was released on 2012-12-27 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume attempts to throw fresh light on two areas of Benjamin Franklin’s intellectual world, namely: his self-fashioning and his political thought. It is an odd thing that for all of Franklin’s voluminous writings—a fantastically well-documented correspondence over many years, scientific treatises that made his name amongst the brightest minds of Europe, newspaper articles, satires, and of course his signature on the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution—and yet scholars debate how to get at his political thought, indeed, if he had any political philosophy at all. It could be argued, that he is perhaps the American Founder most closely associated with the Enlightenment. Similarly, for a man who left so much evidence about his life as a printer, bookseller, postmaster, inventor, diplomat, politician, scientist, among other professions, one who wrote an autobiography that has become a piece of American national literature and, indeed, a contribution to world culture, the question of who Ben Franklin continues to engage scholars and those who read about his life. His identity seems so stable that we associate it with certain virtues that apply to the way we live our lives, time management, for example. The image of the stable figure of Franklin is applied to create a sense of trust in everything from financial institutions to plumbers. His constant drive to improve and fashion himself reveal, however, a man whose identity was not static and fixed, but was focused on growth, on bettering his understanding of himself and the world he lived in and attempted to influence and improve.
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Total Pages : 818 pages
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Download or read book The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments written by and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marion J. Kaminkow
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN 13 : 9780806316642
Total Pages : 926 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (166 download)
Download or read book Genealogies in the Library of Congress written by Marion J. Kaminkow and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol 1 905p Vol 2 961p.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1126 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)
Download or read book The British Printer written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 1126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sidney E. Berger
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538151332
Total Pages : 575 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)
Download or read book The Dictionary of the Book written by Sidney E. Berger and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-01-16 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named a Library Journal Best Reference of 2023 - From Library Journal's Starred Review: "This ambitious and entertaining update solidifies Berger’s volume as a must-have title for librarians, booksellers, collectors, and students of the book arts and book history." This new edition of The Dictionary of the Book adds more than 700 new entries and many new illustrations and brings the vocabulary and theory of bookselling and collecting into the modern commercial and academic world, which has been forced to adjust to a new reality. The definitive glossary of the book covers all the terms needed for a thorough understanding of how books are made, the materials they are made of, and how they are described in the bookselling, book collecting, and library worlds. Every key term—more than 2,000—that could be used in booksellers’ catalogs, library records, and collectors’ descriptions of their holdings is represented in this dictionary. This authoritative source covers all areas of book knowledge, including: The book as physical object Typeface terminology Paper terminology Printing Book collecting Cataloging Book design Bibliography as a discipline, bibliographies, and bibliographical description Physical Condition and how to describe it Calligraphy Language of manuscripts Writing implements Librarianship Legal issues Parts of a book Book condition terminology Pricing of books Buying and selling Auctions Items one will see an antiquarian book fairs Preservation and conservation issues, and the notion of restoration Key figures, presses / publishers, and libraries in the history of books Book collecting clubs and societies How to read and decipher new and old dealers’ catalogs And much more The Dictionary also contains an extensive bibliography—more than 1,000 key readings in the book world and it gives current (and past) definitions of terms whose meaning has shifted over the centuries. More than 200 images accompany the entries, making the work even more valuable for understanding the terms described.
Author : Arthur Lee Humphreys
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Handbook to County Bibliography written by Arthur Lee Humphreys and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
