Baskerville's Papers plain and coloured

Baskerville's constant search for improvements in all aspects of book production is well known. Less consideration, however, has been given to his use of wove paper. The first part of this talk will
review the evidence for the development of this type of paper and how it met Baskerville’s needs. It will then describe how Baskerville’s early experiments with wove paper influenced papermakers both in Western Europe in general
and France in particular. The second part will present work on Baskerville’s marbled papers that
I have undertaken with Prof Diana Patterson, with particular reference to some newly discovered
examples of the printer’s marbled.
papers and the possible influence
of French and other European
decorated papers on Baskerville’s
marbling.