Baskerville also was responsible for significant innovations in printing, paper and ink production.

Baskerville wrote, " The importance of the work demands all my attention ; not only for my own ( eternal ) reputation ; but ( I hope ) also to convince the world, that the University in the honour done me has not entirely misplaced their favours.

Religious books from the time of the early printing press include the Book of Common Prayer from 1549, a 1585 Baskerville Bible with its revolutionary type-face, and also a collection of books by the Dutch philosopher and theologian Erasmus published from 1545 to 1548.

At that period, he also played Henry Baskerville in the Soviet screen version of The Hound of the Baskervilles.

They also contest the Baskerville Shield against Great Britain, and play an annual ANZAC Test against Australia.

Mrs. Eaves was actually named after John Baskerville's lover and is also a kind of revival of Baskerville typeface but somewhat stylized.

William of Baskerville also displays behavioral characteristics similar to Sherlock Holmes '.

Lewis has also published books on Laurence Olivier, William of Baskerville and Peter Sellers and the Carry On actor Charles Hawtrey ( Charles Hawtrey: the man who was Private Widdle, 2001 ).

Baskerville's work was criticized by jealous competitors and soon fell out of favour, but since the 1920s many new fonts have been released by Linotype, Monotype, and other type foundries – revivals of his work and mostly called ' Baskerville '.

First that it was printed in Birmingham by John Baskerville in 1761 ; second that it appealed to children by having the animals speak in character, the Lion in regal style, the Owl with ' pomp of phrase '; thirdly because it gathers into three sections fables from ancient sources, those that are more recent ( including some borrowed from Jean de la Fontaine ), and new stories of his own invention.

Following restoration, it was re-erected, on a new plinth, outside Baskerville House in Centenary Square, in November 2010.

Observers of the new game were shocked when Albert Baskerville fell ill in Brisbane and died of pneumonia.

The Library of Birmingham is a new library under construction at Centenary Square beside the Birmingham Rep and Baskerville House.

The Sunbury factory was powered by a waterwheel and Nettlefold saw the importance of motive power when he took advantage of steam power in a new factory in Baskerville Place, off Broad Street, Birmingham.

Berzelium was the proposed name for a new chemical element that Charles Baskerville believed he had isolated from the already known element thorium.

Baskerville is classified as a transitional typeface, positioned between the old style typefaces of William Caslon, and the modern styles of Giambattista Bodoni and Firmin Didot.

His Baskerville font is still in wide use today.

Baskerville was shot and killed by a sniper while leading a group of student soldiers to break the siege.

Baskerville represents the peak of transitional type face and bridges the gap between Old Style and Modern type design.

Matthew Boulton and Erasmus Darwin met some time between 1757 and 1758, possibly through family connections, as Boulton's mother's family were patients of Darwin ; or possibly though shared friendships, as both were admirers of the printer John Baskerville and friends of the astronomer and geologist John Michell, a regular visitor to Darwin's house in Lichfield.

The square was the centrepiece of the millennium celebrations for the city with singer, Cliff Richard lighting a beacon known as The Flame of Hope, which stood between Baskerville House and Birmingham Repertory Theatre.

The Library of Birmingham is currently being built between Baskerville House and Birmingham Repertory Theatre.

* Baskerville Shield, a trophy awarded to the winner of rugby league test series between Great Britain and New Zealand

Test series between Great Britain and New Zealand are played for the Baskerville Shield, named in his memory.

The Baskerville Shield is a trophy awarded to the winner of rugby league test series between Great Britain and New Zealand.

To a great degree, the critics were wrong ; it did not prevent Baskerville from becoming assimilated as a highly legible text face, and in fact, the high contrast between stems and hairlines became quite desirable, as is apparent in typefaces such as Bodoni, which followed in the lineage.

Once he has released the special charm his gloves hold ( CARS Level 1 ), numerous eyeballs surround him as seen in the fight between him and Luke, and he can morph into a massive " Demon Dog " named Baskerville.

The main line, built by the Great North Bodoni Railway Company, had its own golf club, at Port Baskerville.

Title page of the Prayer book of 1662, printed by John Baskerville in 1762.

* Baskerville, Charles Read.

Baskerville types in a 1761 title page.

Baskerville types in 1757 title page.

John Baskerville ( 28 January 1706 – 8 January 1775 ) was an English businessman, in areas including japanning and papier-mâché, but he is best remembered as a printer and typographer.

John Baskerville printed works for the University of Cambridge in 1758 and, although an atheist, printed a splendid folio Bible in 1763.

Baskerville, an atheist, was buried at his own request, in unconsecrated ground in the garden of his house, Easy Hill.

Baskerville House was built on the grounds of Easy Hill.

A Portland stone sculpture of the Baskerville typeface, Industry and Genius, in his honour stands in front of Baskerville House in Centenary Square, Birmingham.

These include Richard Kirwan, John Smeaton, Henry Moyes, John Michell, Pieter Camper, R. E. Raspe, John Baskerville, Thomas Beddoes, John Wyatt, William Thomson, Cyril V. Jackson, Jean-André Deluc, John Wilkinson, John Ash, Samuel More, Robert Bage, James Brindley, Ralph Griffiths, John Roebuck, Thomas Percival, Joseph Black, James Hutton, Benjamin Franklin, Joseph Banks, William Herschel, Daniel Solander, John Warltire, George Fordyce, Alexander Blair, Samuel Parr, Louis Joseph d ' Albert d ' Ailly, the seventh Duke of Chaulnes, Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond, Grossart de Virly ,, Johann Gottling.

* January 8 – John Baskerville, English printer ( b. 1706 )

* January 28 – John Baskerville, English printer ( d. 1775 )

* Baskerville, Charles Read.

John Baskerville became University Printer in the mid-eighteenth century.

One of his most notable roles was Sir Henry Baskerville in the 1939 Sherlock Holmes film The Hound of the Baskervilles.