Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from John Baskerville, Type-Founder and Printer: 1706-1775
His first occupation, when he was seventeen years old, was that of a servant in the house of a clergyman, who discovered that Baskerville was skilled in penmanship and set him to te ach ing the poor boys in the parish the art of writing.
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