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A specimen by John Baskerville of Birmingham.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online I (ECCO) Available online

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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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