by Baskerville. 50.* The same, 1773, 4 vols. roy. 4to. The impressions of the plates are inferior to those in the octavo form, especially as regards the first two volumes. Brunet says that certain copies of the first volume have a few bordered pages. 51.* ‘Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, in three volumes, by the Right Honourable Anthony, Earl of Shaftesbury; the fifth edition,’ Birmingham, printed by John Baskerville, 1773, 3 vols. roy. 8vo; vignettes and head and tail pieces by Sim. Gribelin, usually stained. 52.* ‘C. Crispus Sallustius; et L. Annæus Florus,’ Birminghamiæ, typis Joannis Baskerville, 1773, roy. 4to. 53.* The same, 1774, 12mo. 54.* ‘The Art of Angling and Compleat Fly Fishing, second edition, by Charles Bowlker,’ Birmingham, printed by John Baskerville for the author, 1774, 12mo. 55.* ‘Anatomia uteri humani gravidi tabulis (34) illustrata. In Latin and English, by Wm. Hunter, M.D.,’ Birmingham, 1774, atlas folio; splendid line engravings by Strange and others; reprinted from lithographic transfers in 1828. He also issued, without dates, the following specimens: ‘A Specimen by John Baskerville, of Birmingham,’ nine sizes of Roman and Italic, with border; the same on larger folio, seven sizes of type, without border; ‘Proposals to Print “Virgil” from Cambridge edition, with Specimens of Type,’ on rough brown paper, 4to; ‘A Specimen by John Baskerville of Birmingham,’ sm. folio, the same as preceding, on firm thin (bank-note) paper.
Sarah Baskerville printed: 1.* ‘An Introduction to the Knowledge of Medals, by the late Rev. David Jennings, D.D.,’ second edition, Birmingham, printed by Sarah Baskerville, and sold by Joseph Johnson at 72 St. Paul's Churchyard, 1775, 12mo, a new setting up of type. The errata are corrected. 2. ‘Quintus Horatius Flaccus,’ Birminghamiæ, typis S. Baskerville, 1777, 12mo. This appears to be the ‘Horace’ of 1762 with new title-page.
[Much information has been obligingly contributed by Mr. Samuel Timmins from his extensive materials for a forthcoming Life of Baskerville. The leading facts used by the biographical authorities are drawn from Hutton's Birmingham. See lives in Kippis's Biographia Britannica (1778), ‘from family information supplied by Mr. J. Wilkinson, merchant in Birmingham;’ Chalmers's General Biographical Dictionary, 1812; Nichols's Lit. Anecd. 1812, iii. 450–61; Laird's Worcestershire (Beauties of England and Wales, xv.), 1814, pp. 66, 245; Chambers's Biog. Ill. of Worcestershire, 1820, p. 369, &c.; West's History of Warwickshire, 1830, pp. 260–272; Hutton's History of Birmingham, 1835, pp. 195–7; Dent's Old and New Birmingham 1879, i. 114, 164, ii. 317, 372; Langford's Century of Birmingham Life, 1868, i. 99, 214, 302, ii. 358. For various miscellaneous facts see Nichols's Lit. Anecd. ii. 411, v. 653, viii. 447, 483; Nichols's Illustrations, i. 813, viii. 458; Noake's Rambler in Worcestershire, 1854; W. Hawkes Smith's Birmingham and its Vicinity, 1836; Timmins's Resources of Birmingham, 1866; articles by S. Timmins, Cuthbert Bede, W. G. Ward, and others in Notes and Queries, 1st ser., iv. 40, 123, 211, v. 209, 355, 618, viii. 203, 349, 423, 2nd ser., iii. 19, xii. 304, 382, 445, 3rd ser., iii. 403, viii. 518, xi. 314, 427, xii. 295, 337, 4th ser., ii. 296, iv. 141, 5th ser., v. 203, 373, 471. Copies of documents from the registry of Cambridge University have been supplied by Mr. R. Bowes. The Prattinton Worcester MSS., in the library of the Society of Antiquaries, include a number of cuttings. An elaborate unpublished bibliography of Baskerville, carefully compiled by Mr. John Bragg, has been consulted. The accessible sources on this branch of the subject are: E. R. Mores's Diss. upon English Typographical Founders, 1778; Harwoods' View of Editions of Greek and Roman Classics, 1790; Dibdin's Library Companion, 1824; ib., Introduction to the Knowledge of Editions of the Greek and Latin Classics, 1827; Hansard's Typographia, 1825; Cotton's Editions of the Bible, 1852; Lowndes's Bibliographer's Manual, by H. G. Bohn, 1864; Bigmore and Wyman's Bibliography of Printing; Birmingham Free Public Libraries' Bibliography [Catalogue by J. D. Mullins], 1884, contains a list of Baskervilles; Loménie's Beaumarchais et son temps, 1856; Quérard's La France Littéraire, 1839, x. 375–6.]
BASKERVILLE, Sir SIMON, M.D. (1574–1641), physician, son of Thomas Baskervile or Baskerville, apothecary, and sometime one of the stewards of Exeter, who was descended from the ancient family of the Baskerviles in Herefordshire, was baptised at the church of St. Mary Major, Exeter, on 27 Oct. 1574. After receiving a suitable preliminary education, he was sent to Oxford, and matriculated on 10 March 1591 as a member of Exeter College, where he was placed under the care of William Helm, a man famous for his piety and learning. On the first vacancy he was elected a fellow of the college before he had graduated B.A., and he did not take that degree till 8 July 1596. Subsequently he proceeded M.A. On the occasion of King James I's visit to the university, Baskervile was ‘chosen as a prime person to dispute before him in the philosophic art, which he performed with great applause of his majesty, who was not only there as a hearer, but as an accurate judge.’ Turning his attention to the study of physic, he graduated M.B. on 20 June 1611, and was afterwards created
