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John Baskerville, type-founder and printer, 1706-1775

Chapter 5: COLLECTION OF J. H. BENTON, U. S. A.
By Jr. Josiah H. Benton
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The biography traces the rise of a provincial artisan from modest beginnings in a thriving manufacturing town to prominence as a type-founder and printer. It places his activities in the social and commercial context of his community and describes his early work as a writing-master and stone cutter that shaped his sense of letterforms. The author recounts his commercial success in japanning, inventive manufacturing methods, and the comfortable estate his earnings purchased. The book concludes by examining his experiments with type design, paper treatment, and printing technique that secured his reputation.

COLLECTION
OF J. H. BENTON, U. S. A.

[Numbers refer to Straus and Dent’s Bibliography]

BASKERVILLE EDITIONS

No.DateTitle
7. 1757. Virgil. Opera. Royal 4to. Plates by Hollar. Map inserted.
8. 1757. Virgil. Opera. Royal 4to. Extra illustrated.
15. 1758. Milton. Paradise Lost. Imperial 8vo.
17. 1758. Milton. Paradise Regain’d, Imperial 8vo.
20. 1758. [Huckell.] Avon. 4to. Sig. K2 printed 2K.
22. 1759. Milton. Paradise Lost. 4to.
23. 1759. Milton. Paradise Regain’d. 4to.
31. 1760. Book of Common Prayer. [Long lines without borders.] Imperial 8vo. Finely executed painting on the fore-edge. Price erased.
32. 1760. Book of Common Prayer. [Long lines with borders.] Imperial 8vo.
38. 1760. [Mallet.] Edwin and Emma. Royal 4to.
40. 1761. Book of Common Prayer. [Double column without borders.] Imperial 8vo.
43. 1761. Book of Common Prayer. [Long lines with borders.] Imperial 8vo.
44. 1761. Æsop. Fables. 8vo.
45. 1761. Juvenal and Persius. Satyrae. Royal 4to. Two copies, 2d copy has plates by Hollar inserted.
46. 1761. Congreve. Works. 3 vols. Imperial 8vo.
48. 1761. Addison. Works. 4 vols. Royal 4to. Two copies, one not trimmed and in original boards.
52. 1762. Book of Common Prayer. [Long lines without borders.] Imperial 8vo.
54. 1762. Book of Common Prayer. [Double column without borders.] 12mo. Two copies, each with Psalms bound in. See Nos. 55, 56.
55. 1762. Sternhold and Hopkins. Psalms in Metre. 12mo. Bound at end of larger copy of No. 54.
56. 1762. Tate and Brady. Psalms. 12mo. Bound at end of smaller copy of No. 54.
59. 1762. Horace. Opera. 12mo.
65. 1763. Holy Bible. Cambridge. Imperial folio.
69. 1764. Jennings. On Medals. 8vo.
71. 1765. Barclay. Apology. Royal 4to.
75. 1766. Virgil. Works. By R. Andrews. In English. Imperial 8vo.
78. 1766. Virgil. Opera. 8vo. No frontispiece.
86. 1770. Horace. Opera. Royal 4to. Manuscript errata inserted.
90. 1772. Lucretius. De rerum natura. Royal 4to.
91. 1772. Catullus. Opera. Royal 4to.
92. 1772. Catullus. Opera. 12mo.
93. 1772. Terence. Comoediae. Royal 4to.
94. 1772. Terence. Comoediae. 12mo.
98. 1773. Ariosto. Orlando Furioso. 4 vols. Imperial 8vo. Errata in vol. 4.
99. 1773. Ariosto. Orlando Furioso. 4 vols. Imperial 8vo. Corrections in text.
102. 1773. Shaftesbury. Characteristics. 3 vols. Imperial 8vo.
104. 1773. Lucretius. De rerum natura. 12mo. Two copies.
105. 1773. Sallustius. Opera. Royal 4to.
109. 1774. Sallustius. Opera. 12mo.

UNIVERSITY PRESS, OXFORD

113.1763. New Testament, Greek. Imperial 8vo. 676 pages.

SARAH BASKERVILLE

116. 1777. Horace. Opera. 12mo. No dedication.

ROBERT MARTIN

117. 1767. Somervile. The Chase. Imperial 8vo. This copy reads “chace” on page 43.