← Table of contents
John Baskerville, type-founder and printer, 1706-1775

Note 10 — JOHN BASKERVILLE

Reading edition

Edward Rowe Mores was a crusty, crabbed clergyman, who collected different founts of types, and obtained much information upon the subject of type-founding. He printed eighty copies of the book quoted above, and Nichols bought the whole of them. See Nichols’s Literary Anecdotes, volume v, page 389.

Explore with AITake your curiosity a little further.

Reading settings