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A specimen by John Baskerville of Birmingham.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baskerville, John, 1706-1775.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Printing--Specimens--Early works to 1800.
- Printing.
- Type and type-founding--Specimens--Early works to 1800.
- Type and type-founding.
- Genre:
- Specimens, type.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 sheet )
- Place of Publication:
- [Birmingham, s.n., 1762?]
- Notes:
- With a border.
- Printed in two columns of nine paragraphs each; in this edition the Great Primer roman alphabet ends with "P." and there is one specimen of Bourgeois roman and one of Bourgeois italic.
- The Brevier roman text ends "comparabitur"; variant: the Brevier roman text ends "atque qui".
- Reproduction of original from Cambridge University Library.
- Cited in:
- Gaskell, xi
- English Short Title Catalog, N24174.
- OCLC:
- 83390954
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