John Baskerville, an English businessman, was born in Wolverley, Worcestershire, on 28 January 1706. As a child, he had admired the concept of letter making. Passionate about literature, in 1723 he became a skilled stonemason of tombstones and a writing teacher. In 1726 he moved to Birmingham, England, and became a master teacher of writing. In 1737 he opened a school in the Bull Ring, Birmingham. Baskerville was brilliant in choosing the Bull Ring as the location because it is the historic market center of Birmingham, which has earned it a reputation as 'The City of a Thousand Crafts'. This helped him to continue teaching accounting and continue his work as a stonemason, and later led him to success. Despite the desire to continue working with his passion on letters, he also had the desire to get money. In this way he set himself on the path to learning the fascinating techniques of Japanese ceramics. Japanese pottery was an early form of coating or decorating metal or hard objects with glaze. Around 1740, Baskerville set up his japan business in Moor Street, Bull Ring. He hand-painted fruits and flowers onto objects (which included picture frames, watch cases, tea trays, candlesticks, and boxes), then used a vitreous substance (usually paint) to coat the objects with finishing touches, usually for ornamentation and as decoration. protective coating.Thanks to his successful production of Japanese items, he made a great fortune; it offered a nice push towards his first passion, lettering. By 1751, Baskerville was known as "...an innovator who broke the prevailing rules of design and printing in the books he produced at his printing house in Birmingham, England." In his involvement in the book-making process, he seized the opportunity...... middle of paper...... Virgil edition, in 1757. The book had an extraordinary impact due to its proportionate structure and printing in small, in 1758 The printer of Baskerville was appointed to the Cambridge University Press. This helped contribute to the enormous success of one of his 56 published books, a folio edition of the Bible, in 1763. However, on January 8, 1775, Baskerville died in his home and, at his request, was buried in a mausoleum. , located in his garden. Works Cited Benton, Josiah H. John Baskerville (New York: private press, 1914) 1-63 Bullring Birmingham “Official, Bullring History Guide,” Bullring Birmingham: About theCentre, accessed March 19, 2014. http ://eu- static.bullring.co.uk.s3.amazonaws.com/Live/Documents/BULLRING%20HISTORY.pdf.Meggs, Phillip. “An Age of Typographic Genius” History of Graphic Design, Fifth Edition. (New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, 2012), 127-130