19th century book
Valerie J Roebuck
vjroebuck at MACUNLIMITED.NET
Tue Aug 9 09:53:28 UTC 2005
I now have some digital photos of the first and last pages of the
text. Once the re-organisation of the website is completed, they are
going to be placed in the Indology archive. In the meantime, anyone
who is interested in taking a look at them is welcome to contact me
off-list. There are 4 jpegs, total size 260k.
With thanks--
Valerie J Roebuck
Manchester, UK
At 6:26 pm +0100 27/7/05, Valerie J Roebuck wrote:
>Thank you to everyone who has provided information about the 19th
>century copy of the Tulsi Ramayana. I hope shortly to have some
>digital photos of the work. I believe it is possible to place
>relevant photos on the Indology website?
>
>Valerie J Roebuck
>Manchester, UK
>
>At 8:49 am -0400 25/7/05, Allen W Thrasher wrote:
>>I find that lithographed books from India often look as much like
>>mss as like books printed from moveable type. I think it is not
>>just that the graphemes are somewhat less regular, but that the
>>ink-paper interface (w.w.?) is different from letterpress. Graham
>>Shaw at the British Library has done a study of lithography in
>>India and is still collecting material on it. Have you shown it to
>>him?
>>
>>It is possible, also, that under the inspiration of moveable type
>>books the scribe was particularly careful to be very regular, more
>>so than traditionally the best scribes would be. I have in my own
>>library an ed. of the Bhagavatapurana published in Pune in the
>>1970s or 1980s made by a brahmacari by hand and reproduced by
>>photo-offset. You would think it was letterpress, all the more so
>>since the same decorative frame was around the text on each page,
>>done on a transparency and then photographed along with the text.
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