Dear Listers, The technique of lithography was used not only for reproducing pictures but also for printing texts till about the middle of the 19th century. Though movable Devanagari type had been created by the Serampore missionaries in the 18th century - and possibly by the Portuguese of Goa even before that - texts continued to be printed by lithography till much later. In Marathi this technique was called Shila-press, literally 'stone-printing', a translation of the original term. You can see an example of this technique at http://www.archive.org/details/prakrutkaviteche025454mbp. This is a book of Marathi poems for school children published in 1860. The poems are translations of English poems and the translator was Mahadeo Govind Kolhatkar, one of my great-great-grandfathers. who was among the early students of western learning in Maharashtra. His other well-known work is a translation of "Othello'. He served as a Deputy Inspector of Schools. He died in 1861 at the somewhat early age of 51. Arvind Kolhatkar, May 26, 2008.