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baskerville
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
typeface style, 1802 (the type was created in the 1750s), named for John Baskerville (1706-1775), British type-founder and printer.\n\nThe initial version were cut by John Handy under Baskerville's watchful eye. The result is the epitome of Neoclassicism and eighteenth-century rationalism in type -- a face far more popular in Republican France and the American colonies than in eighteenth-century England, where it was made.
[Robert Bringhurst, "The Elements of Typographic Style," 1992]
Wikipedia
Baskerville is a serif typeface designed in 1757 by John Baskerville (1706–1775) in Birmingham, England and cut by John Handy. Baskerville is classified as a transitional typeface, intended as a refinement of what are now called old-style typefaces of the period, especially those of his most eminent contemporary, William Caslon.
Compared to earlier designs, Baskerville increased the contrast between thick and thin strokes, making the serifs sharper and more tapered, and shifted the axis of rounded letters to a more vertical position. The curved strokes are more circular in shape, and the characters became more regular. These changes created a greater consistency in size and form. Baskerville's typefaces remain very popular in book design and there are many modern revivals, which often add features such as bold type which did not exist in Baskerville's time.
Baskerville is an English surname of Anglo-Norman origin. It is believed to have been used by Normans from Boscherville ( Saint-Martin-de-Boscherville) or from Bacqueville ( Bacqueville-en-Caux), many of whom settled along the English-Welsh border. Etymologically the name is a combination of archaic Anglo-Norman French boschet (a little bush) and ville (town).
At the time of the British Census of 1881, its relative frequency was highest in Herefordshire (16.2 times the British average), followed by Cheshire, Devon, Radnorshire, Oxfordshire, Brecknockshire, Cornwall, Wigtownshire, Carmarthenshire and Staffordshire. It has also been corrupted to Basketfield in some families.
The name Baskerville may refer to:
- Albert Henry Baskerville (1882–1908), a New Zealand pioneer of rugby league football
- Charles Baskerville (1896–1994), American painter
- Charles Baskerville (1870–1922), American chemist
- Howard Baskerville (1885–1909), an American missionary, revered as the "American Lafayette" in Iran
- Sir John Baskerville, a Royalist during the English Civil Wars
- John Baskerville (1706–1775), typographer
- John David Baskerville (1857–1926), a Canadian politician
- Lorrainne Sade Baskerville, an American social worker and activist
- Ralph de Baskerville, son of Robert de Boscherville who held Eardisley Castle
Baskerville may refer to:
- Ralph de Baskerville, son of Robert de Boscherville who held Eardisley Castle
- Howard Baskerville (1885–1909), American teacher in the Presbyterian mission school in Tabriz, Iran, who died fighting for Iranian democracy
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John Baskerville, eighteenth-century English printer and typeface designer
- Baskerville, a typeface
- Baskerville, Virginia, a census-designated place in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, United States
- Baskerville, Western Australia
- Baskerville House, a building in Birmingham, England
- Baskerville Raceway, a motor racing circuit near Hobart, Australia
- Baskerville, a fictional dog in the gamebook The Curse of Batterslea Hall
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The Hound of the Baskervilles, the third of four crime novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes
- " The Hounds of Baskerville", an episode of the TV series Sherlock inspired by the Doyle novel
- William of Baskerville, the main character of the novel The Name of the Rose
Usage examples of "baskerville".
Surely the very kidneys of wisdom, Florence Green has only one kidney, I have a kidney stone, Baskerville was stoned by the massed faculty of the Famous Writers School upon presentation of his first lesson: he was accused of formalism.
Sir Charles Baskerville, has died of a heart attack and James Mortimer thinks that he might have been scared to death.
Sir Charles Baskerville had an ancestor called Sir Hugo Baskerville, who was a wild, profane and godless man.
Mortimer thinks that the Hound of the Baskervilles might have scared Sir Charles to death and he is worried that his son and heir, Sir Henry Baskerville, will be in danger when he goes to the hall in Devon.
Sherlock Holmes sends Doctor Watson to Devon with Sir Henry Baskerville and James Mortimer.
And Stapleton is poor, so he tries to kill Sir Henry Baskerville so that he will inherit the hall.
London and covered it in phosphorus to make it glow in the dark, and it was this dog which scared Sir Charles Baskerville to death.
Doctor Watson is Sir Henry Baskerville and she knows that her husband wants to kill him.
Barrymore, who is the caretaker at Baskerville Hall, because he is the only other person who has a black beard.
Not far away, Alex could see a clump of trees which he was told surrounded Baskerville Hall.
Jones, Sherlock Holmes, Farmer Toowey, and Sir Henry Baskerville looked sympathetically up from the high tea which the landlord was serving them.
Thus, the ppussjan could be himself, or Sir Henry Baskerville, or the Hound of the Baskervilles, just as it suited him.
This book is set in Baskerville 10 pt. Corgi Books are published by TranswoHd Publisher!
He was buttering up to Lady Baskerville for all he was worth, and when I asked him why he was there, he told me you had given him permission.
The moment you arrive you will send a wire to Sir Henry Baskerville, in my name, to say that if he finds the pocketbook which I have dropped he is to send it by registered post to Baker Street.