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See also:BASKERVILLE, See also:JOHN (1706-1775) , See also:English printer, was See also:born at Wolverley in See also:Worcestershire on the 28th of See also:January 1706. About 1726 he became a See also:writing See also:master at See also:Birmingham, and he seems to have had a See also:great See also:- TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental
talent for calligraphy and for cutting See also:inscriptions in See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone. While at Birmingham he made some important improvements in the See also:process of See also:japanning, and gained a considerable See also:fortune. About the See also:year 1950 he began to make experiments in type-See also:founding, producing types much See also:superior in distinctness and elegance to any that had hitherto been employed. He set up a See also:printing-See also:house, and in 1757 published his first See also:work, a See also:Virgil in royal See also:quarto, followed, in 1758, by his famous edition of See also:Milton. In that year he was appointed printer to the university of See also:Cambridge, and undertook See also:editions of the See also:Bible and the See also:Book of See also:Common See also:Prayer. The See also:Horace, published in 1762, is distinguished even among the productions of the Baskerville See also:press for its correctness and for the beauty of the See also:paper and type. ' A second Horace appeared in 1770 in quarto, and its success encouraged Baskerville to publish a See also:series of quarto editions of Latin authors, which included See also:Catullus, See also:Tibullus, See also:Propertius, See also:Lucretius, See also:Terence, See also:Sallust and See also:Florus. This See also:list of books issued by Baskerville from his press lends some See also:irony to the allegation that he was a See also:person of no See also:education. These books are admirable specimens of See also:typography; and Baskerville is deservedly ranked among the foremost of those who have advanced the See also:art of printing. His contemporaries asserted that his books owed more to the quality of the paper and See also:ink than to the type itself, but the difficulty in obtaining specimens from the Baskerville press shows the estimation in which they are now held. His wife, Sarah Baskerville, carried on the business for some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time after his See also:death, which took See also:place on the 8th of January 1775.
End of Article: BASKERVILLE, JOHN (1706-1775)
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