LOCAL HISTORY: Signs of the Baskerville; This year marks the 300th anniversary of one of Europe's greatest printers, Birmingham's own John Baskerville.(Features)

From: The Birmingham Post (England) | Date: November 4, 2006 | Copyright information

Byline: By CHRIS UPTON

Paradise Lost, The Book of Common Prayer, The Complete Works of Horace, The Bible, The Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus.

Out of Birmingham in the 1750s and 1760s came forth a series of volumes, as famously described by Thomas Macaulay, "to astonish the librarians of Europe".

Librarians are not, as a breed, prone to astonishment, but at a stroke, one man gave the Midland city a prominence and a reputation that rivalled the great book capitals of Antwerp and Paris. It could, for a while, look scholarship right in the eye.

The printer ...

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