Member Eha… Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 This topic was imported from the Typophile platform I remember reading about two years ago a short (maybe 15-page) scholarly account of the interactions of Baskerville and Benjamin Franklin. I'd found it as a PDF, and it had inset pictures and illustrations. I'm pretty sure it was this, but I'm not positive:http://www.search.revolutionaryplayers.org.uk/engine/resource/exhibition/standard/default.asp?resource=4626 At any rate, I was hoping to find it as a PDF (need to show it to someone), but I can't find any online. Does anyone have any idea what I'm talking about? Thanks. Link to comment
Member eli… Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 It wasn't this Monticello: the History of a Typeface article, I suppose. Link to comment
Member Ric… Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 Neither this, right? ;-)http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/caslon-baskerville-and-franklin-revol... Link to comment
Member Eha… Posted February 24, 2012 Author Share Posted February 24, 2012 Neither is the exact one I'm remembering, but they're both good. Link to comment
Member Wil… Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 I don't know the online availability, but the original source for the letter in which Franklin writes Baskerville about his prank is: John Nichols, Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century (London: Nichols & Son and Bentley, 1812), 3: 454-55. I quote it in my article 'Readability and Revival: The Case of Caslon,' in last summer's edition of Printing History. Link to comment
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