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Show 22 PAPERMAKIN still occupied at his first calling he started in the printing trade an in this work became one of the most renowned craftsmen in th annals of English typography. He cut the punches for his type an did much to clevate type design in England. The books printed b him are known for their neatness, brilliancy of ink, and th smoothness of the paper. ‘This he accomplished by placing cac printed sheet as it came from the press, while the paper was stil damp and the ink undried, between hot plates of polished coppe and subjecting them to a slight pressure. Baskerville died in 17 and from his will, which had been written in 1773, it would pear that he had 2 mill of some kind on his estate in Birmingham for it directs that his body is "to be buried in a conical building i my own premises heretofore used as a mill, whic 1a[el nised lughu' and painted, and in a vault which I have prcparc ¢ may be that Baskerville carried on the craft of paper1""&, as several writers suggest, in the b\uldmg mentioned i his will, but it is probable that this structure was not of sufficien size for this purpose. According to Thomas Hansnd in Typo was cut through the estate and his leaden coffin was exhumed, an reburied in a spot that is now a question of debate T do not care for wove handmade paper for book printing, unless it be of Oriental origins the European prototype lacks character and possesses not nearly the quality and beauty of the origina Laid paper. It is hardly proper to usc old-style type in printing book upon wove paper, and it is an anachronism to mark machine‘made paper with laid-lines, for paper formedon a machine is naturally of the wove varicty and any laid-ine watermarking applie by use of a dandy-roll borders on deception Digital Imag © 2004 University of Utah. All rights reserved |