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STYLES OF OTHEE BRITISH TYPE-FOUNDERS. 65 paper and ink, and proper presses and pressmen, could not be readily found to do the types justice. Seventy years after Baskerville's death, when all these conditions were to style. be had, his style was revived. It is still esteemed. To many book-lovers the Baskerville style is the embodiment of all that is really praiseworthy in types. IX Styles of other British Type-founders. EFORE the xvnith century had closed, the Caslon style had been adjudged "too stiff"; the Bas- kerville, "too delicate." Of the two styles, the Baskerville was the less objectionable ; but the punches and matrices had gone abroad and could not be recalled, and the types that he left had been worn out. The Round and open types taste of the day was for roundness and openness of form, preferred. Hogarth's new theory that the true line of beauty was in the curve and reversed curve, seems to have been accepted by the many publishers who called for types that should have more of the curve and less of the angle. To meet this want, Joseph Jackson, the ablest apprentice of the first J. Jackson, Caslon, designed a style which was intended to combine diedi792.' the good features of all previous types. The best work done with Jackson's new types may be seen in Macklin's Begun 1739. 9