JOHN BASKERVILLE
From a picture after Miller in the National Portrait Gallery, London. Emery Walker Ph. x.
John Baskerville
JOHN BASKERVILLE
TYPE-FOUNDER
AND PRINTER
1706-1775
BY
Josiah Henry Benton, LL.D.
BOSTON
PRIVATELY PRINTED
1914
Copyright, 1914, by J. H. Benton
D. B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, Boston
NOTE
I have, for some years, been interested in John Baskerville, and have collected his imprints. Knowing this fact, the President of the Boston Society of Printers asked me to prepare a paper on Baskerville, to be read at a meeting of the Society on February 24, 1914. This I did, and that paper formed the basis of this little book.
J. H. B.