John Baskerville: Art and Industry in the Enlightenment

ISBN-13: 9781786940643 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 288 str.

Birmi Design & Media Caroline Archer-Parré (Faculty of Art; University of Birmingham (Unite Malcolm Dick (Arts Building

Opis

The eighteenth-century typographer, printer, industrialist and Enlightenment figure, John Baskerville (1707-75) was an inventor, entrepreneur and artist with a worldwide reputation who made eighteenth-century Birmingham a city without typographic equal, by changing the course of type design. This publication explores Baskerville in his social and economic context and evaluates his impact.