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		<title>John Baskerville: The Anatomy of a Type Part II</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[While John Baskerville introduced many improvements to the art of printing, he did not profit by them. Standards of production were so high that he was unable to compete with the commercial printers for the work of the booksellers, who complained that his prices were two to three times as much as they could reasonably [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Baskerville: The Anatomy of a Type</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By every measure, the types originally created by the amateur English printer John Baskerville in the middle of the 18th century—and named for him—have demonstrated universal appeal. The proof of this is their availability as single types for hand composition, and upon all of the typesetting machines, both hot-metal and photographic. And, unquestionably, Baskerville will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>November 2</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a letter to Horace Walpole, M.P., addressed from Easy Hill, Birmingham on this day in 1762, John Baskerville wrote: &#8220;As the Patron and Encourager of Arts, and particularly that of Printing, I have taken the liberty of sending you a Specimen of mine, begun ten years ago at the age of forty-seven, and prosecuted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>January 28</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[On this day in 1706 John Baskerville was baptized. He thus began life with a blessing, although he ended as a Free Thinker and—in the opinion of many of his contemporaries—an atheist. Honored now for his reputation as a great printer and as the designer of one of the universal typefaces, Baskerville&#8217;s personal life is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>January 16</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 11:25:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Suggesting a scheme for preparing correct texts, the Birmingham printer John Baskerville wrote to Robert Dodsley, the foremost 18th century London publisher of belles-lettre, on this day in 1754: “Tis this. Two people must be concerned; the one must name every letter, capital, point reference, accent, etc., that is, in English, must spell every part [...]]]></description>
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		<title>January 8</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On this day in 1775, John Baskerville died. Born at Walverley, in Worchestershire, England, in 1706, Baskerville at an early age acquired such skill in penmanship that he was prompted to maintain a school in the subject in Birmingham. In 1735 he began a career in the japanning process which was then most popular for [...]]]></description>
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