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MS Facsimile 2231
- Record Id:
- 040-002839640
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001951760
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023612571.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- MS Facsimile 2231
- Title:
- Facsimiles of material relating to John Baskerville
- Scope & Content:
-
Contains:
- Letter from Baskerville to Horace Walpole MP, 2 Nov 1762.
- Letter from Baskerville, 3 Dec 1766.
- Letter from Boulton and Fothergill to Baskerville, 19 Jan 1771, with Baskerville's reply, undated.
- Baskerville's petition for a patent for a machine to make thin metal plates, undated.
- Baskerville's will, 1773
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Surrogates
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001951760
040-002839640 - Is part of:
- MS Facsimile 1-*SUPPL. VII : Facsimiles of manuscripts
MS Facsimile 2231 : Facsimiles of material relating to John Baskerville - Hierarchy:
- 032-001951760[0640]/040-002839640
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: MS Facsimile 1-*SUPPL. VII
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1900
- End Date:
- 1999
- Date Range:
- 20th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Custodial History:
- The facsimiles were printed for presentation to the Cambridge Baskerville Club by R. Strauss in 1906.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Presented by Brooke Crutchley, June 1974.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Baskerville, John, printer and typefounder, 1706-1775