A drawing of a skeleton.

#BirminghamHistory Don’t forget to Join us for the annual Chris Upton Memorial Lecture on Monday 3rd November, 5.30pm - tinyurl.com/UptonBaskerville Ref: MS 897,Volume II, Image 218 #LibraryofBham @typetweets.bsky.social #BaskervilleSoc

Image 1 : A book - front cover facing on. Cover is a reproduction of a painting depicting a male figure wearing the traditional eighteenth-century garb of a gentleman - wig with curled up sides and frock coat with neckerchief. Title of the book at the top of the page is John Baskerville: art and industry of the Enlightenment. Names of the editors beneath this on the left of the cover.

Image 2 – Two books resting on a table, both front covers facing on. Title is A History of Birmingham in the top left of the front cover. An illustration of a bustling square – Georgian and early Victorian architecture. A group of people carrying a jardinière in the bottom left of the picture and a horse and carriage in the right. People populating the various corners of the illustration. A bookcase behind the table on which the books are resting.

Join us for the annual Chris Upton Memorial Lecture on Mon 3rd November at 5.30pm tinyurl.com/UptonBaskerv... Professor Caroline Archer-Parré will be giving her talk: Inhuming and exhuming: John Baskerville’s death, burial, and post-mortem life #LibraryofBham @typetweets.bsky.social #BaskervilleSoc

A slate block. Ornate carving on the block. Text with flourished designs around the words. The slate reads - 'Grave Stories Cut in any of the Hands. John Baskervill, Writing Master'.

#Baskerville 2025 marks 250 years since the death of John Baskerville - Birmingham printer, publisher and type designer. Here’s a photo of the Baskerville slate block. Notice the surname is missing a letter e at the end. Ref - MS 3084/3 #LibraryofBham @typetweets.bsky.social #BaskervilleSoc

A book - front cover facing on. Cover is a reproduction of a painting depicting a male figure wearing the traditional eighteenth-century garb of a gentleman - wig with curled up sides and frock coat with neckerchief. Title of the book at the top of the page is John Baskerville: art and industry of the Enlightenment. Names of the editors beneath this on the left of the cover. The book is inside a reflective metal box.

#SundayShowcase All things #Baskerville - why not read one of the essays on the great man in John Baskerville : art and industry of the Enlightenment, edited by Archer-Parré & Dick. Ref - L 78.1 #LibraryofBham @typetweets.bsky.social‬ #BaskervilleSoc

Interior photo. A series of display stands leading from the floor upwards. Standing to well over five feet tall. Display boards attached to the stands. Chiefly textual information with a small image on each board. Text on the large wall behind the exhibition stands directing to the Children’s and Music libraries and Book Browse.

There’s still time to catch the #JohnBaskerville exhibition in the library foyer before it closes Thursday. The exhibition coincides with the 250th anniversary of Baskerville’s death and presents the man, his typeface, books and legacy #LibraryofBham ‪@typetweets.bsky.social‬ #BaskervilleSoc