FOOTNOTES:

[1] Birmingham and the Midland Hardware District, pages 211, 221.

[2] Autobiography of Alexander Carlyle, D.D.

[3] Hutton’s History of Birmingham (1783), page 90.

[4] Gough’s British Topography (1780), volume ii, page 306.

[5] Hutton’s History of Birmingham, page 90.

[6] Frivolous.

[7] Testy.

[8] Mark Noble, who was born in Birmingham in 1754. His father sold beads, knives, toys, etc., to the slave traders. In 1781 he was presented to two “starvation livings,” as he called them, in Warwickshire. He divided his interests then among his congregation, his books, and his farm. His writings were those of an imperfectly educated, vulgar-minded man. His ignorance of English grammar and composition rendered his books hard to read and occasionally unintelligible, while the moral reflections with which they abounded were puerile. (Dictionary of National Biography.)

[9] Chambers’s Biographical Illustrations.

[10] Edward Rowe Mores was a crusty, crabbed clergyman, who collected different founts of types, and obtained much information upon the subject of type-founding. He printed eighty copies of the book quoted above, and Nichols bought the whole of them. See Nichols’s Literary Anecdotes, volume v, page 389.

[11] The Bookhunter (1885), page 67.

[12] Reed’s Old English Letter Foundries, pages 269, 271, 277, 279.

[13] Dent and Straus, John Baskerville, page 64.

[14] Autobiography of Alexander Carlyle, D.D.

[15] Straus, Robert Dodsley, page 272.

[16] Dictionary of National Biography.

[17] Straus, Robert Dodsley, pages 219, 273.

[18] Lettres inédites de Voltaire (1857), page 254.

[19] Reed’s Old English Letter Foundries (1882).

[20] Hansard’s Typographia (1825), page 311.

[21] Hansard’s Typographia, page 723.

[22] Ibid., page 717.

[23] Reed’s Old English Letter Foundries, page 276.

[24] Macaulay’s History of England, volume ii.

[25] Harwood’s Classics, page 172.

[26] Hansard’s Typographia, page 311.

[27] Dibdin’s Library Companion, page 716.

[28] Dibdin’s Library Companion (1825), page 47.

[29] Dibdin’s Library Companion, page 613.

[30] Straus, Robert Dodsley, pages 289-292.

[31] Baskerville’s work was greatly admired on the Continent, especially in France. He was paid several very handsome compliments in Pierre Didot’s “Épître sur les Progrès de l’Imprimerie,” published in Paris in 1784; and in the notes to the poem attention is given to his method of printing and to his glossy paper,—“qui fatigue la vue.” To make such paper, says Didot rather loftily, “is not a secret, and if it ever becomes one, will not be worth finding out.” This opinion did not, however, prevent the Didots from attempting to imitate it.

[32] Dibdin’s Greek and Latin Classics (1827), vol. ii, pages 555 et seq.

[33] Harwood’s Classics, page 176. See also Dibdin’s Classics, volume ii, page 111.

[34] Dibdin’s Library Companion, page 766.

[35] Hansard’s Typographia, page 311.

[36] Horne’s An Introduction to the Study of Bibliography, vol. i, page 253.

[37] Bibliography of Printing, page 37.

[38] Fitzgerald’s The Book Fancier, page 77.

[39] Reed’s Old English Letter Foundries, pages 286, 287.

[40] Ibid., page 332.

[41] Theodore Low De Vinne’s Title-Pages as seen by a Printer (1901), pages 154, 155.

[42] Reed’s Old English Letter Foundries, pages 134, 136.

[43] Secular Review, September 8, 1877.

FINIS

BASKERVILLE EDITIONS

IN THE COLLECTION OF J. H. BENTON

COLLECTION
OF J. H. BENTON, U. S. A.

[Numbers refer to Straus and Dent’s Bibliography]

BASKERVILLE EDITIONS

No.	Date	Title
7.	1757.	Virgil. Opera. Royal 4to. Plates by Hollar. Map inserted.
8.	1757.	Virgil. Opera. Royal 4to. Extra illustrated.
15.	1758.	Milton. Paradise Lost. Imperial 8vo.
17.	1758.	Milton. Paradise Regain’d, Imperial 8vo.
20.	1758.	[Huckell.] Avon. 4to. Sig. K2 printed 2K.
22.	1759.	Milton. Paradise Lost. 4to.
23.	1759.	Milton. Paradise Regain’d. 4to.
31.	1760.	Book of Common Prayer. [Long lines without borders.] Imperial 8vo. Finely executed painting on the fore-edge. Price erased.
32.	1760.	Book of Common Prayer. [Long lines with borders.] Imperial 8vo.
38.	1760.	[Mallet.] Edwin and Emma. Royal 4to.
40.	1761.	Book of Common Prayer. [Double column without borders.] Imperial 8vo.
43.	1761.	Book of Common Prayer. [Long lines with borders.] Imperial 8vo.
44.	1761.	Æsop. Fables. 8vo.
45.	1761.	Juvenal and Persius. Satyrae. Royal 4to. Two copies, 2d copy has plates by Hollar inserted.
46.	1761.	Congreve. Works. 3 vols. Imperial 8vo.
48.	1761.	Addison. Works. 4 vols. Royal 4to. Two copies, one not trimmed and in original boards.
52.	1762.	Book of Common Prayer. [Long lines without borders.] Imperial 8vo.
54.	1762.	Book of Common Prayer. [Double column without borders.] 12mo. Two copies, each with Psalms bound in. See Nos. 55, 56.
55.	1762.	Sternhold and Hopkins. Psalms in Metre. 12mo. Bound at end of larger copy of No. 54.
56.	1762.	Tate and Brady. Psalms. 12mo. Bound at end of smaller copy of No. 54.
59.	1762.	Horace. Opera. 12mo.
65.	1763.	Holy Bible. Cambridge. Imperial folio.
69.	1764.	Jennings. On Medals. 8vo.
71.	1765.	Barclay. Apology. Royal 4to.
75.	1766.	Virgil. Works. By R. Andrews. In English. Imperial 8vo.
78.	1766.	Virgil. Opera. 8vo. No frontispiece.
86.	1770.	Horace. Opera. Royal 4to. Manuscript errata inserted.
90.	1772.	Lucretius. De rerum natura. Royal 4to.
91.	1772.	Catullus. Opera. Royal 4to.
92.	1772.	Catullus. Opera. 12mo.
93.	1772.	Terence. Comoediae. Royal 4to.
94.	1772.	Terence. Comoediae. 12mo.
98.	1773.	Ariosto. Orlando Furioso. 4 vols. Imperial 8vo. Errata in vol. 4.
99.	1773.	Ariosto. Orlando Furioso. 4 vols. Imperial 8vo. Corrections in text.
102.	1773.	Shaftesbury. Characteristics. 3 vols. Imperial 8vo.
104.	1773.	Lucretius. De rerum natura. 12mo. Two copies.
105.	1773.	Sallustius. Opera. Royal 4to.
109.	1774.	Sallustius. Opera. 12mo.

UNIVERSITY PRESS, OXFORD

113.

1763.

New Testament, Greek. Imperial 8vo. 676 pages.

SARAH BASKERVILLE

116.

1777.

Horace. Opera. 12mo. No dedication.

ROBERT MARTIN

117.

1767.

Somervile. The Chase. Imperial 8vo. This copy reads “chace” on page 43.

INDEX

Adam, James, [16].
Addison, Joseph, works of, printed, [34], [46].
Aesop’s Fables, edition of, [34], [46].
Akenside, Mark, [36].
Aldus Manutius. See Manutius, Aldus.
Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte, works of, printed with Baskerville types, [52].
Anderton, William, type-maker, [19].
Ariosto, edition of, for the Brothers Molini, [41]-[42].

Baldwin, R., London bookseller, buys remainder of edition of Baskerville’s Bible, [31].
Banks, Sir Joseph, [16].
Bartolozzi, Francesco, [42].
Baskerville, John, birth and death, [1];
settles in Birmingham, teaches writing and practises stone-cutting, [2];
builds up great trade in japanned ware, [3], [4], [5], [6], [19];
his estate, Easy Hill, [4]-[6];
High Bailiff of Birmingham, [6];
his dress, [6], [8], [9];
his connection with Mrs. Eaves, marriage, death of son, [7];
his private character and habits, [8]-[9];
lack of education, [9], [10];
general remarks and quotations on his character and work, [11]-[19];
probable origin of his interest in printing, [19];
his statement of his purpose to improve the arts of type-founding and printing, [20]-[22];
his tribute to Caslon, [20];
his type-making, [22]-[24], [27];
construction of presses, [24];
his improvement of printing-ink, [25]-[26];
his edition of Virgil, [27]-[29];
of Milton, [29]-[30];
of the Bible, [30]-[32];
of the Book of Common Prayer, [32]-[34];
of Addison, [34];
of Aesop’s Fables, [34]-[35];
of Rev. John Huckell’s Avon, [35];
his prices, [35];
reasons of the financial failure of his printing business, [35]-[36];
his Greek type, cut for the University of Oxford, [36]-[37];
notice of, by Dibdin, [37]-[39];
his quarto editions of the classics, [39]-[41];
prints Ariosto, for the Brothers Molini, [41]-[42];
his paper-making, [43]-[45];
does little binding, [45];
duration of his printing business, [45];
books upon which his fame rests, [45]-[46];
his influence upon the art of printing, [46]-[47], [57]-[58];
his efforts to sell his business, [48]-[50];
these efforts continued by his widow, [51];
sale to a French society, [51];
printing-press reëstablished at Kehl, for printing of Voltaire’s works, [52];
business broken up and type scattered, [52]-[53];
Baskerville’s title-pages, [54]-[55];
provisions of his will, [59]-[60];
his tomb and epitaph, [60], [61];
successive removals of his remains, [61]-[62];
inscription over last grave, [62];
his artistic vision, [62]-[63];
list of his works in collection of J. H. Benton, [67]-[69].
Baskerville, Sarah, wife of John, [7], [9];
advertises her late husband’s business for sale, [51];
sells to a French society, [51].
Baskerville House. See [Easy Hill]; also [Smart, Mr.]
Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de, forms society for printing Voltaire’s works with Baskerville’s types, [51].
Bedford, Dr. John, quoted, [12].
Bensley, Thomas, [39].
Berners, Juliana, her Treatyse of Fysshinge wyth an Angle printed with Baskerville’s types, [53].
Bible, edition of, [5], [21], [30]-[32], [46], [49], [55].
Birmingham, in the early eighteenth century, [1];
noted for freedom in religion and in industry, [1], [2].
Blanché, Augustin, quoted, on Baskerville’s improvement in paper-making, [43].
Boden, Nicholas, [18].
Bodoni, Giambattista, [58].
Bowyer, William, [13];
criticises Baskerville’s Greek type, [36]-[37].
Boydell and Nicol, press of, [53].
Bridgewater, James, buys some of Baskerville’s type, [51].
Brunet, Jacques Charles, [42].
Bulmer, William, [39].
Burke, Edmund, [36].
Burton, John Hill, quoted, [14], [15].
Bute, Lord. See [Stuart, John], 3d Earl of Bute.

Cambridge, University of. See [University of Cambridge].
Carlyle, Alexander, describes visit to Baskerville, [4], [15]-[16].
Caslon, Samuel, type-founder, [13], [19].
Caslon, William, type-founder, [19], [57];
Baskerville’s tribute to, [20].
Catullus, edition of, [39], [40], [46], [55].
Chambers, John, quoted, [8], [9], [10].
Chesterfield, 4th Earl of. See [Stanhope, Philip Dormer], 4th Earl of Chesterfield.
Chiswick Press, [54].
Cibber, Colley, [36].
Classics, Baskerville’s quarto editions of, [39]-[40], [41], [46], [55].
Clive, Robert, Lord Clive, [1].
Colinaeus, Simon de, [38].
Common Prayer, Book of, [5], [21], [32]-[34], [46], [48], [49].
Cooper, Sir Anthony Ashley, 3d Earl of Shaftesbury, Baskerville’s edition of his Characteristics, [17].
Cotton, H., on Baskerville’s Bible, [32].
Culloden, battle of, [1].

Darwin, Dr. Erasmus, [16].
Day, Thomas, [16].
De Vinne, Theodore Low, quoted, on Baskerville’s title-pages, [55].
Dent, Robert K. See [Straus, Ralph, and Robert K. Dent].
Derrick, Samuel, quoted, [5], [43].
Dibdin, Thomas F., quoted, [10], [28], [30], [32], [33]-[34], [37]-[39], [42], [57].
Didot, François Ambroise, [58].
Didot, Pierre, quoted, on Baskerville, [38] n.
Divine right of kings, collapse of, [1].
Dodsley, James, [26].
Dodsley, Robert, his edition of Aesop’s Fables printed by Baskerville, [5], [34], [35];
Baskerville’s acquaintance and correspondence with, [7], [16], [17], [18], [22], [24], [26], [28];
business relations with, [35],[41].
Douglas, tragedy of, [15].

Easy Hill, Baskerville’s residence, [4]-[6], [61], [62].
Eaves, Richard, [7].
Eaves, Sarah, wife of Richard. See [Baskerville, Sarah, wife of John].
Elzevir family, [38].
Enamel, invention of, [3].
English power in the East and in the New World, [1].
Epitaph, [61].

Fitzgerald, Percy Hethrington, quoted, [48].
Florus, edition of, [39], [40], [46].
Franklin, Benjamin, [7], [17], [28], [29], [48];
letters of, on Baskerville’s work, [13]-[14], [45];
undertakes negotiations for Baskerville with French government, [50].
Frederick the Great, [1].

Galton, Samuel, [16].
Garbett, Samuel, [15].
German Empire, foundation of, [1].
Gilt buttons, boxes, etc., [3].
Goldsmith, Oliver, [36].
Gravelot, Hubert François Bourguignon, [40], [41].
Gray, Thomas, [36].
Greek type, cut by Baskerville, [36]-[37].
Grignion, Charles, [41].

Handy, John, works for Baskerville, [22].
Hansard, Thomas Curson, gives recipe of Baskerville’s ink, [25]-[26];
quoted, on Baskerville’s edition of Milton, [30];
on his processes of work, [46];
his criticism of Martin’s types, [53].
Harwood, Edward, quoted, on Baskerville’s edition of Virgil, [28];
of Horace, [41];
suggests that English nation should purchase Baskerville’s types, [51].
Herschel, Sir William, [16].
Hervey, James, his Meditations printed in Baskerville type, [51].
Hollar, Wenzel, [39].
Home, John, [15].
Horace, edition of, [33], [39], [40], [46];
Dr. Harwood’s remarks on, [41].
Horne, Thomas Hartwell, quoted, [47].
Hot-pressing, Baskerville’s process of, [24]-[25], [46].
Huckell, Rev. John, his Avon printed, [35].
Hudibras, Baskerville’s admiration for, [17]-[18].
Hutton, William, [10];
quoted, [6], [8], [11].

Ibarra, Joachim, [58].
Ink, printers’, [25]-[26].

James, Thomas, type-founder, [57].
Japanned ware, [3], [19].
Johnson, Dr. Samuel, [28], [36].
Juvenal, edition of, [39], [55].

Kehl, printing-press at, [52].
Kippis, Andrew, [16], [46].
Knott, Jonathan, [61].

Livie, John, edits Horace, for Baskerville, [40], [41].
Lowndes, William Thomas, on Baskerville’s Bible, [32].
Luckombe, Philip, [24].
Lucretius, edition of, [39], [40], [46].
Luna Club, Birmingham, [16].

Macaulay, Thomas Babington, Baron, quoted, [28].
Manutius, Aldus, [37];
Baskerville compared to, [17], [38].
Marston, Mr., of Birmingham, [61].
Martin, William, type-cutter, disciple of Baskerville, [53].
Mazyck, Isaac, [28].
Merrymount Press, [52].
Middle classes, rise of influence of, [1].
Milton, John, edition of his Paradise Lost, [10]-[12], [20], [21], [43], [46].
Minden, battle of, [1].
Molini Brothers, Ariosto printed for, by Baskerville, [41]-[42].
Montreal, capture, by English, [1].
Mores, Edward Rowe, his abuse of Baskerville, [10], [37];
quoted, [12], [44];
note upon, [12] n.

Newton, Thomas, Bp. of Bristol, [21].
Nichols, John, quoted, [12];
printer and author, [13].
Noble, Mark, his description of Baskerville, [9];
sketch of, [9] n.
Norris, Isaac, [29].

Orlando Furioso, [42], [46].
Oxford, University of. See [University of Oxford].

Palmer, Samuel, [24].
Paper, Baskerville’s manufacture of, [43]-[45].
Paradise Lost, [10]-[11], [20].
Paterson, Samuel, [9].
Persius, edition of, [39], [55].
Pickering, William, [54];
prints last English book with Baskerville’s types, [53].
Pine, John, [39].
Pitt, William, 1st Earl of Chatham, [1].
Plantin, Christophel, [38].
Plassey, battle of, [1].
Ponce, Nicolas, [39].
Pope, Alexander, [36].
Prayer Book. See [Common Prayer, Book of].
Printing, in England, in seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, [56], [57].
Propertius, edition of, [40].
Protestant Dissenting Charity School, Birmingham, bequest of Baskerville to, [59].
Psalms, versions of, printed by Baskerville, [32], [40].

Reed, Talbot Baines, quoted, on Baskerville’s work, [14], [29], [37], [47];
on survival of his types, [52], [53];
on Martin’s types, [53].
Robertson, James Craigie, [15].
Rossbach, battle of, [1].
Ryland, John, [61].

Sallust, edition of, [39], [40], [46].
Shaftesbury, 3d Earl of. See [Cooper, Sir Anthony Ashley].
Shakespeare Press, types used in, [53].
Shenstone, William, [34], [35];
Baskerville’s acquaintance with, [17], [18], [22];
quoted, on Baskerville’s edition of Horace, [40]-[41].
Smart, William, bookseller at Worcester, buys Baskerville prayer books, [33];
builds house called “Baskerville House,” [33].
Snuff-boxes, [3].
Stanhope, Philip Dormer, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, [36].
Stationers’ Company, payment to, for permission to print the Psalms, [32], [48], [49].
Stephen, H., [44].
Sternhold and Hopkins, their version of the Psalms printed by Baskerville, [40].
Straus, Ralph, quotation from his Robert Dodsley, showing relations of Dodsley and Baskerville, [16].
Straus, Ralph, and Robert K. Dent, their memoir of Baskerville, quoted, [43], [58].
Stuart, John, 3d Earl of Bute, [41].

Tate and Brady, their version of the Psalms printed by Baskerville, [40].
Taylor, John, carries on large business in japanned ware, [3], [4].
Tedder, Henry R., quoted, [16].
Terence, edition of, [39], [40], [46].
Tibullus, edition of, [40].
Title-pages, [54]-[55].
Tonson, Jacob, London bookseller, employs Baskerville to print an edition of Milton, [21], [28];
procures type in Amsterdam, [57].
Type, Baskerville’s process of making, [23]-[24].

University of Cambridge, dealings of, with Baskerville, concerning printing of Bible and Prayer Book, [32], [33], [48], [49].
University of Oxford, Baskerville makes Greek type for, [36]-[37].

Viator (pseudonym), quoted, [10]-[11].
Virgil, editions of, [20], [23], [27]-[29], [39], [40], [43], [44], [45], [55];
subscribers to, [28].
Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de, Baskerville compared to, [9];
Baskerville’s admiration for, [18];
edition of his works in Baskerville’s types, [51]-[52].

Wale, Samuel, [41].
Walpole, Horace, [36];
letter of Baskerville to, [48]-[50].
Walpole, Sir Robert, 1st Earl of Orford, [1], [18].
Warren, Mr., quoted, on Baskerville’s Aesop, [34].
Wedgwood, Josiah, [16].
Wesley, Rev. John, [1].
Whitefield, Rev. George, [1].
Whittingham, Charles, printer, [39], [54].
Withering, Dr. William, [16].
Worlidge, Thomas, [39].

Young, Edward, [36].

Zatta, Antonio, [42].

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INDEX

COLLECTION
OF J. H. BENTON, U. S. A.