John Baskerville’s Virgil (1757) and the Development of the Earliest Western-Made Wove Papers: a talk by Dr. Cathleen A. Baker (Conservation Librarian Emerita, University of Michigan) delivered on 10 June 2025 at the University of Michigan Library. More than 10 years ago, Baker examined the library’s copy of the first edition of John Baskerville's Virgil (Birmingham, 1757) and became convinced that the paper she was looking at was not formed on a woven-wire screen, as has long been assumed, but rather on a piece of cloth secured over a single-face laid mould. She has since conducted numerous papermaking experiments using this technique and examined more than 200 copies of the book in private and public collections in the US, UK, Ireland, Germany, and Japan.