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Bengali Types and Their Founders
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 March 2011
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While in London about the year 1770, William Bolts required some types for printing in Bengali. Such types were non-existent, and the type foundry of Mr. Joseph Jackson was engaged to prepare a font. In 1773 or 1774 he suddenly left for India, and the types remained behind. Some years later the font, still incomplete, found its way to the establishment of William Caslon III. They were museum pieces.
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