sentences:  Like Baskerville, his italics were inspired by handwriting and the engraved lettering known as copperplate hand.Fournier also published a two volume "Manuel Typographique", in which he recorded much European typographic history, and introduced the first standardized system of type size measurement—the "point".The roman and italic types of John Baskerville c. 1772 appeared later than Fleischman's but are considered transitional and partly retrogressive with a return to lower contrast, smooth transaxial modeling, finely modeled bracketed serifs, and long stems.