[INDOLOGY] Clarification: Early 20th century Indian publishers and fonts

[Harry Spier]

> Hi Madhav,
>
You wrote:

> Another useful Marathi book [342+Photographs] by Bapurao Naik is a general
> account of the evolution of Devanagari from Brahmi upto modern Devanagari
> printing: देवनागरी मुद्राक्षरलेखनकला, Vol 1, 1982, Mumbai.
>
Is this a Marathi and newer version of Naik, B. S. (1971). Typography of
Devanagari. Bombay: Directorate of Languages (noted by Birgit Kellner)..

Note:  "Typography of Devanagari ( can be downloaded (in 9 parts) from
https://disk.yandex.com/d/rDIogm1J3WjKp4 . In addition to all the
infomation it gives, it has photographic plates  and samples of devanagari
from the earliest copper plate printing  (from Hortus Indicus Malabaricus
,Amsterdam, 1678 ,copied below)  up to and including samples from different
fonderies from what it calls "the Nirnaya Sagar era".

Harry Spier

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