Baskervillen.
/ˈbaskəvɪl/, U.S. /ˈbæskərˌvɪl/ Used attributively and absol. to designate types designed by Baskerville.
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script1779
Baskerville1802
Egyptian type (letters, figures)1855
hand lettering1864
Garamond1868
runic1869
outline1878
Bodoni type1880
hairline letter1888
bold-face1889
Cheltenham1910
in-line1923
slab serif1924
Bembo1930
Times New Roman1932
Times1957
manifolderc1961
Times Roman1963
1802 C. Wilmot Irish Peer on Continent (1920) 121 Lady Mount Cashell bought a good many books from Bodini (sic)... His type surpasses Baskerville.
1828 E. Fry in T. B. Reed Old Eng. Letter Foundries (1887) xv. 310 The Baskerville and Caslon imitations..were laid by for ever.
1887 T. B. Reed Old Eng. Letter Foundries xv. 299 The complete series of Romans, cut after the Baskerville models.
1922 D. B. Updike Printing Types II. xvii. 107 The slight touch of over-delicacy which the Baskerville letter possessed.
1928 R. B. McKerrow Introd. Bibliogr. 302 The rather weak and grey descendants of Caslon plus Baskerville.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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