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The Bibliographical Society, Oxford University Press, London, 1981. Cloth, 8vo, 25 cm,. xi, 249 pp, ills. From the introduction: "Once..the first printing-shop had opened there in 1772, just twenty years after the battle of Plassey, Calcutta rapidly developed into the largest centre of printing in the subcontinent during the last two decades of the eighteenth century, appropriate to its paramount importance to the British as an administrative, commercial and social base. Furthermore, while the presses in Madras remained very much in the hands of government and missionaries, Calcutta saw a proliferation of commercial printing-shops and newspaper-offices.Previous studies of early printing in Calcutta and Bengal have largely concentrated upon the pioneering efforts of Charles Wilkins in casting the first Bengali types and in setting up the Honorable Company's Press, with the tendency then to pass directly on to the post-1800 period and to examine the undoubted achievements of the Serampore…
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- Title Printing in Calcutta to 1800: A Description and Checklist of Printing in Late 18th-Century Calcutta
- Author Graham Shaw
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 249
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Bibliographical Society of America, London
- Date 1981
- ISBN 9780197217924 / 0197217923
- Weight 144 lbs (65.32 kg)
- Library of Congress subjects India - Imprints - Early works to 1800 -, Printing - India - Calcutta - History -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 81141754
- Dewey Decimal Code 016.686
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London: Bibliographical Society, 1981. Book. Very good+ condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo (8vo). xii, 249 pages of text including an index of: Printers; Works Containing Printing In Exotic Types, etc.; Authors, Translators, Editors and of the Principal Persons or Institutions Named in the Titles of Works; and Titles. Hardcover binding with minimal shelfwear. Illustrated with several facsimiles of title pages. The text is clean and unmarked. First edition..
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