Hand bound typographic book created to illustrate the strange tale of John Baskerville’s corpse. John Baskerville was a typographer who designed and crafted typefaces around the time of the industrial revolution in Birmingham. This book illustrates the bizarre tale of how his corpse was repeatedly exhumed and once shown as a museum curiosity. Created using traditional letterpress techniques. Hand stitched, then bound using leather and thick card.
Cover created using metal typesetting and a Columbia Eagle press, copy printed digitally, solely using the font ‘baskerville’.
