Baskerville
The Biography of a Typeface (The ABC of Fonts)
$44.37
- Hardcover
144 pages
- Release Date
6 February 2024
Summary
The classic elegant English typeface, still widely used as a book text more than 250 years since its creation. Baskerville is a transitional design, poised between the first metal types and modern styles, notable for its combination of fat and thin strokes. When it was first used there was genuine concern that it would damage readers’ eyes.
John Baskerville was a maverick lacquer maker and printer in Birmingham, a flamboyant dresser, an important figure in the Enlightenment. Though it…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781399609272 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1399609270 |
| Author: | Simon Garfield |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 6 February 2024 |
| Weight: | 220g |
| Dimensions: | 204mm x 136mm x 20mm |
| Series: | The ABC of Fonts |
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About The Author
Simon Garfield
Simon Garfield is the author of the international bestsellers Just My Type, On the Map and Mauve, while To the Letter was one of the inspirations for the theatre shows Letters Live with Benedict Cumberbatch. His study of AIDS in Britain, The End of Innocence, won the Somerset Maugham prize.
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