My first post on the 1924/5 King Fuʾād Edition included a map of Cairo 1920, on which I had marked the Amīriyya Press and the Land Registry (Egyptian Survey Authority) with arrows in the Nile, as well as Midan Tahrir and the place where the government printing press is located since 1972. Also the Ministry of Education and the Nāṣirīya Pedagogical College, where three of the editors worked. The area between Bab al-Luq (in the south-east) and Taufiqia (north of the main railway station) is called Ismailia: the area between the Nile and al-Qāhira (proper) was built up (copying Baron Hausmann's Paris) under Ismail Pascha (1863‒1879 Wali/Governor; in 1867 the Sublime Port recognized the title of "Khedive" for him and his successors); today simply: Downtown.
Everything to the right of the Nile plus the islands is Cairo, everything to the left (Imbaba, Doqqi, Giza) not only does not belong to the city of Cairo, but is in another province.
The two Arabic texts are the 1924 and 1952 printer's notes, both from the copies in the Prussian State Library, which owns copies from five editions.
Important: the typesetting workshop and the offset workshop were well connected by car, tram and boat. The assembled pages did not have a long way to go. Nevertheless: typesetting the text in Būlāq, making a rough proof (Bürstenabzug), making adjustments on the proof (like placing kasra withIN the tails of end-ḥāʾ/ǧīm/ḫāʾ and end-ʿain/ġain, sometimes reducing the space before kāf and after rāʾ/zain and waw); transporting the adjusted proofs to Giza, making plates, printing; transporting the bodies of the book to Būlāq where it was bound and embossed, took more time than planned: Although printed "1342" in the book (see top insert on the map) it was 1343 by the time the books were ready. So the first edition was embossed:
Sunday, 28 November 2021
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