Sahar Afshar is an independent type designer and researcher who divides her time between her practice, consultation, teaching and research, particularly in relation to the Arabic script and the various regions and cultures that use this writing system.Wei Jin Darryl Lim is an independent book and print historian. His research remit focuses on the global and transregional networks of lithography and typography in the Malay world during the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.Vaibhav Singh is an independent researcher, typographer, and type designer. Previously a Postdoctoral Fellow of the British Academy and chairman of the Printing Historical Society, he is the editor and publisher of Contextual Alternate, a journal of technology, design and history.

• Contents - List of Figures – List of Tables- Acknowledgement - Sahar Afshar, Wei Jin Darryl Lim and Vaibhav Singh: Introduction – Part I – Sahar Afshar: The Onset of Gurmukhi Printing in India - Jesús Barrientos Mora: Early Mexican Manuscripts and the Acquisition of Alphabetic Writing in Mesoamerica - Wei Jin Darryl Lim: Issues with Early Lithography in Batavia: Borrowed Presses and ‘Soiled’ Stones – Part II – Svenja Michel: Printed Hours: Networks of Printers, Devotion and the Repetition of Images in a Parisian Incunable – Eliza Deac: Shaping the Visual Identity of Modernist Poetry: The Role of the Typographical Layout in Symbolist and Avant-Garde Poems – Guglielmo Rossi: The Case for Collective Control: The Leveller Magazine and Publishing as a Prefigurative Political Form – Arina Stoenescu: A ‘New’ Socialist Polygraphic School: Typographic Education in Communist Romania (1948–1989) – Part III – Gerry Leonidas: Themes in the Globalisation of Typeface Design – Robin Jeffrey: Reflections on Studying the History of Printing in India – Notes on Contributions - Index