John Baskerville, type-founder and printer, 1706-1775 - Jr. Josiah H. Benton

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].