Body-text fonts, pt. 50: Baskerville (metal type, mid-20th c.); Baskerville 10 (digitization)
My favorite Baskerville specimens from the previous century are in Charles Williams’s novels (e.g., War in Heaven [1930]).
This, too, is representative:
From the 2003 NYRB Classics introduction by Jan Morris:
(František Štorm’s Baskerville 10 is the font’s closest digital approximation.)
This, too, is representative:
Rose Macaulay
The Towers of Trebizond (1956)
The Towers of Trebizond (1956)
From the 2003 NYRB Classics introduction by Jan Morris:
There was a time when the opening line of this book entered the common parlance of educated English and American people. Nearly everyone I knew could quote it, and “‘Take my camel, dear,’ said my Aunt Dot” became a commonplace of badinage or social pleasantry. The line still gets into dictionaries of quotations, but it is years since I have heard it used in conversation.It’s too bad that we’ve moved from the gracious “Take my camel, dear” to the boorish “Hold my beer.”
(František Štorm’s Baskerville 10 is the font’s closest digital approximation.)