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L'imprimerie arabe en occident (XVIe, XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles)

BALAGNA, Josée. Paris: Maisonneuve & Larose, 1984. 153 pp.

A synoptic account of the first three centuries of Arabic typography in Europe, where all printed Arabic books were produced until the 18th century. As well as vivid descriptions of the books and the scholars who edited them, there are also remarks on the type-faces and their creators, and illustrations of some of them.