Thank you for this Dominik.  This reminds me that there is a three volume book set on either devanagari printing in India or devanagari printing in Maharashtra that has pictures of all the very first devanagari printed books.  There was some discussion about this on the list a few years back.  I thought I had it but I can't locate it on my computer.  Does anyone recall the title as I suspect its on archive.org.

Thanks,

Harry Spier

On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 6:34 PM Dominik Wujastyk via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:

In the early history of printing in India, especially Bombay, lithograph printing was commonly done this way, with the text in landscape format.  This was a direct transfer of the look-and-feel of the tradition manuscript over to the new technology of reproduction.

There's a substantial collection (nearly 200?) of early Indian lithographs in the Wellcome Library in London.  I don't quickly know how to sub-select them in the OPAC, but here is a link to some of them.  The Wellcome Sanskrit and Hindi lithographs were catalogued long ago by Somdev Vasudev.

Best,

Dominik

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Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Society and Polity

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Department of History and Classics

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University of Alberta, Canada

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South Asia at the U of A:

 

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On Wed, 27 May 2020 at 14:12, Tyler Williams via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:

Of course: Graham Shah, "The Introduction Of Lithography And Its Impact On Book Design In India." Vingama: the IGNCA Newsletter Vol. II No. 2 July – September 1994. 

Best,

TWW

On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 2:45 PM Allen Thrasher via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:

Could Tyler please give us the reference for Graham Shaw's paper?

Allen

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