[583] Proposals for Printing by Subscription a Complete Edition of the Works of Voltaire, printed with the Types of Baskerville for the Literary and Typographical Society, 1782, 12 pp. 8vo, with 2 pp. specimens of the type. The French proposal appears to have been put forward in 1780.
[584] Beaumarchais and His Times. Translated by H. S. Edwards. London, 1856. 4 vols. 8vo (iii, chap. 24).
[585] Œuvres Complètes de Voltaire. De l’Imprimerie de la Société litteraire et typographique, (Kehl) 1784–1789. 70 vols. in 8vo; and 92 vols. in 12mo.
[586] Renouard mentions having seen at Paris a broadside specimen of all the Baskerville types transported to Beaumarchais’ establishment: “Ce sont les mêmes types,” he adds, “mais quelle différence dans leur emploi!” (Catalogue, i, 310).
- La Virtu Sconosciuta Dialogo, 1786, 8vo.
- Del Principe e delle Lettere, 1795, 8vo.
- L’Etruria Vendicata Poema, 1800, 8vo.
- Della Tirannide, 1809, 8vo.
[588] The Treatyse of Fysshynge wyth an Angle. Attributed to Dame Juliana Berners, reprinted from the Book of St. Albans. London; printed with the types of John Baskerville for William Pickering. (Thos. White, imp.) 1827. 8vo.
[589] A statement that they were acquired at the beginning of the century for the printing offices of the Imperial Academy of Sciences at St. Petersburg, appears, after careful inquiry, to rest on no further foundation than rumour.
14. THOMAS COTTRELL, 1757
[590] See frontispiece. Cottrell is the figure marked 4.