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Facts

Born January 28, 1706 • England
Died January 8, 1775 (aged 68) • Birmingham • England

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Figure 16: English typography, 18th century. (Right) A page from John Baskerville's Virgil, printed in Cambridge in 1757.
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Bodoni, engraving
Giambattista Bodoni
Italian printer
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Simon de Colines
French printer
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Nicolas Jenson
French printer
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Geoffroy Tory
French printer
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William Morris
British artist and author
Times New Roman
Stanley Morison
English typographer
Walker, Emery: Brooks's in the Olden Time
Sir Emery Walker
English printer
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Sir Francis Meynell
English designer
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Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson
British book designer
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Ambroise-Firmin Didot
French printer and typesetter
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Pierre François Didot
French publisher and printer
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Firmin Didot
French printer and typesetter
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Giovanni Mardersteig
Italian printer
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Christophe Plantin
French printer
Goudy, Frederic W.
Frederic W. Goudy
American printer and typographer
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Daniel Berkeley Updike
American printer and publisher
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Johann Froben
Swiss printer
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S.H. de Roos
Dutch typographer
William Byrd
William Byrd
English composer
William Caxton
William Caxton
English printer, translator, and publisher