The foregoing is extracted from a work entitled The English Bowman, by T. Roberts, 1801.

PHILOSOPHUS.

BASKERVILLE THE PRINTER.
(Vol. iv., pp. 40. 123.)

Hansard's Typographia, i. 8vo. 1825, Preface, p. xii—xiii.:

"Of the more modern portraits something remains to be said, and particularly of that of Baskerville. It has been hitherto supposed that no likeness is extant of this first promoter of fine printing, and author of various improvements in the Typographic Art, as well as in the arts connected with it. At the time when I was collecting information for that part of my work in which Mr. Baskerville is particularly mentioned (p. 310. et seq.), I thought it a good opportunity to make inquiry at Birmingham whether any portrait or likeness of him remained; for a long time the inquiry was constantly answered in the negative, but at last it occurred to a friend to make a search among the family of the late Mrs. Baskerville, and he was successful. Mr. Baskerville married the widow of a Mr. Eaves; her maiden name was Ruston; she had two children by her former husband, a son and a daughter: the latter married her first cousin, Mr. Josiah Ruston, formerly a respectable druggist at Birmingham, and she survived her husband. At the sale of some effects after her decease, portraits of her mother and her father-in-law, Mr. Baskerville, were purchased by Mr. Knott of Birmingham. Some of Mr. Ruston's family and friends who are still living, consider this likeness of Mr. Baskerville as a most excellent and faithful resemblance. It was taken by one Miller, an artist of considerable eminence in the latter part of Baskerville's time. The inquiries of my friend Mr. Grafton, of Park Grove, near Birmingham, at once brought this painting into notice: and at his solicitation Mr. Knott kindly permitted Mr. Raven of Birmingham, an artist of much celebrity, to copy it for my use and the embellishment of this work; to which, I think, the united talents of Mr. Craig and Mr. Lee have done ample justice."

The portrait faces p. 310. of Mr. Hansard's book, and there may be found an account, though somewhat different, of the exhumation alluded to by MR. ST. JOHNS (Vol. iv., p. 123.), which took place in May, 1821.

CRANMORE.

In answer to an inquirer I beg respectfully to state that the body of the eminent printer now reposes, as it has for some years, in the vaults of Christ Church in our town.

WILLIAM CORNISH.

New Street, Birmingham.