A "reader" for students of Arabic literature. What makes this interesting and useful for typographical researchers is the fact that all the passages are reproduced photographically from the original editions, ranging in date from 1826 to 1942. Places of printing include Beirut, Berlin, Bombay, Bulaq, Cairo, Cambridge, Damascus, Göttingen, Halle, Heidelberg, Istanbul, Leiden, Leipzig, London, Madrid, Paris and St Petersburg. There are also some lithographed editions and examples of Arabic in Hebrew and Syriac scripts.
A fairly rare type-face of which a specimen is given is the simplified and modernised (but quite hard to read) version of the Maghribi-Andalusian script used in Madrid in an edition of 1916.
