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... Baskerville no English- man in the eighteenth century seemed to have the ambition , the skill , or the courage to make the business anything better than a plain trade . Even Baskerville , after six years of experiment and ten of ...
... Baskerville no English- man in the eighteenth century seemed to have the ambition , the skill , or the courage to make the business anything better than a plain trade . Even Baskerville , after six years of experiment and ten of ...
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... Baskerville printed astonished the good folk who were sufficiently interested to examine them , and they delighted the smaller number that purchased the works . But praise alone could not uphold the Birmingham establish- ment . When one ...
... Baskerville printed astonished the good folk who were sufficiently interested to examine them , and they delighted the smaller number that purchased the works . But praise alone could not uphold the Birmingham establish- ment . When one ...
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... Baskerville could not , as he said , get bread in his own country , " after having ac- quired the reputation of excelling in the most useful art known to mankind , while everyone who excels as a Player , Fiddler , Dancer & c . not only ...
... Baskerville could not , as he said , get bread in his own country , " after having ac- quired the reputation of excelling in the most useful art known to mankind , while everyone who excels as a Player , Fiddler , Dancer & c . not only ...
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... Baskerville had won repute at the cost of his peace and his wealth . But Charles Whittingham was not deterred by the slights which had been put upon the first English printer of his century . It was enough for him that he would have to ...
... Baskerville had won repute at the cost of his peace and his wealth . But Charles Whittingham was not deterred by the slights which had been put upon the first English printer of his century . It was enough for him that he would have to ...
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... Baskerville , the eighteenth century was a time of falling off . But there came a young pro- vincial , fresh from his apprenticeship at Coventry , and to him our modern psalmodists of progress owe the revival which lures their lusty ...
... Baskerville , the eighteenth century was a time of falling off . But there came a young pro- vincial , fresh from his apprenticeship at Coventry , and to him our modern psalmodists of progress owe the revival which lures their lusty ...
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