Early typography in India

While dealing with the editio princeps of the Nyāyamañjarī, I keep wondering about the relation of pandits of that time (1895) with the printing technology available to them. This edition must have been done with movable characters, which means that every page is dismantled once printed in the given number of copies. Was it possible for Gangadhara Sastri to proofread the page?

It would be nice to gather more information about the printing technology available to these typographers, the fonts used by them, the existing fondries, the smiths (don't know if black- or gold-) who manifactured the punches, the provenience of the paper used for these book, the costs of the various aspects of production.