The purpose of the Great Universal Exhibition in London 1851 was to present examples of all the best natural and manufactured products of the time. It is significant that the Egyptian government chose to send a collection of the products of the Bulaq press. The Bulaq press was one of the first printing houses in the Arab world, its productions are of a remarkably high quality and the technical works have some fine drawings and plans. The development of Arabic in its nineteenth-century renaissance is currently the subject of a great deal of scholarly interest. The Library of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) acquired a small but valuable collection of Bulaq imprints, which are now being made available to the scholarly community by IDC Publishers.
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