JOHN BASKERVILLE’S PRINTING
Since Mr Turnbull’s earliest days, the Library has devoted some attention to fine printing and its history, so that the holdings of original specimens from the past are representative and often important examples from the presses eon cerned. Baskerville’s productions are many, but the Library has relatively few, though additions have been made of recent years. In view of the frequent references to specific works printed by Baskerville in many modern treatises on printing, it will be of interest to set forth what are on the library shelves:
ADDISON. Joseph. Works. 4 volumes. Birmingham, printed by John Baskerville for J. & R. Tonson, London. MDCCLXI.
AESOP. Select fables ... in three books. Birmingham, printed by John Baskerville for R. and J. Dodsley . . . 1764. In a very remarkable contemporary binding of green and red morocco.
BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. Cambridge, printed by John Baskerville, printer to the University . . . mdcclx.
CATULLUS, TIBULLUS ET PROPERTIUS. Opera. Birmingham. Typis Joannis Baskerville, mdcclxxii. CONGREVE, William. The Works of Mr. William Congreve in three volumes consisting of his plays and poems. 3 vols. Birmingham. Printed by John Baskerville for J. &R. Tonson, London, 1761. Full crushed Morocco, * Bound by Riviere & Son for Alex. H. Turnbull.’
HOLY BIBLE. Birmingham. Printed by John Baskerville. MDCCLXIX. (MALLET, DAVID). Edwin and Emma. Printed by John Baskerville for A. Miller in the Strand, mdcclx. MILTON, J. Paradise Lost (Paradise Regained). Birmingham. printed by John Baskerville for J. and R. Tonson. . . . mdcclviii. 2 volumes. From the library of Ralph Straus, bibliographer of Baskerville. This edition includes his famous preface on his printing enterprize.
MILTON, John. Paradise Lost (Paradise Regained ). Birmingham. Printed by John Baskerville for J. & R. Tonson, mdcclx. 2 volumes, bound by Derome le Jeune.
SALLUSTIUS ET FLORUS. (Opera). Birmingham. Typis Joannis Baskerville, mdcclxxiii. SHAFTESBURY, Anthony, Earl of. Characteristics of men, manners, opinions, times. Fifth edition. Birmingham. Printed by John Baskerville, mdcclxxiii. 3 volumes. TERENCE. Comoediae. Birmingham. Typis Joannis Baskerville, MDCCLXXII.
VIRGIL. Works Englished by Robert Andrews. Birmingham, printed by John Baskerville for the author. MDCCLX VI. VIRGIL. Bucolica, Georgica et Aeneis. Birmingham. Typis Johannis Baskerville. mdcclxvi.
BOOKS ON BASKERVILLE BENNETT, W. John Baskerville, the Birmingham, printer. Volume 1. Birmingham school of printing, 1937.
BIRMINGHAM PUBLIC LIBRARY. Literature and other miscellaneous items relating to John Baskerville. Birmingham School of Printing, 1937.
BOCKWITZ, Hans H. Baskerville in letters. Birmingham school of printing, 1933. John Baskerville in the judgment of German contemporaries. Birmingham school of printing, 1937.
CAVE, Thomas. John Baskerville: the printer, 1706-1773. Birmingham school of printing, 1936. STRAUS, Ralph and Dent, R. K. John Baskerville, a memoir. Chatto and Windus, 1907.
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Turnbull Library Record, Volume VII, 1 June 1947, Page 20
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