{"product_id":"unrecorded-english-grammar-printed-at-the-cotta-church-mission-press-kotte-in-sri-lanka-1834-elements-of-english-grammar-by-samuel-lambrick","title":"Unrecorded English Grammar printed at the Cotta Church Mission Press - Kotte in Sri Lanka - 1834 - \" Elements of English Grammar\" by Samuel Lambrick","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUnrecorded English Grammar printed at the Cotta (Kotte) Church Mission Press in Sri Lanka (Ceylon) -  1834 \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The Elements of English Grammar. For the use of the Youths in the Christian Institutions at Cotta.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-Printed in Ceylon at the Cotta Church Mission Press, 1834. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e-By the Reverend Samuel Lambrick \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-Second edition, 12mo (18 x 10cm)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-Complete: [4], 68, xxvii, [1]pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-Contemporary red calf with some wear. One quire loosening\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Cotta Church Mission Press was established in Cotta (modern day Kotte) near Colombo, Sri Lanka in 1822. Missionaries were sent to Sri Lanka after the British colonial government took over the Island in 1796. \"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003ePresses soon sprang up at Colombo, Wesleyan Mission Press, 1815; Cotta, Church Missionary Society, 1822; Kandy, Baptist Mission Press, at least by 1841; Jaffna, Wesleyan Church Missions Press, 1825, and Nellore, Church Missionaries, 1834 (at least two presses existed at the Nellore mission)\" (Rhodes)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Rev. Samuel Lambrick (1768-1854) was a British Missionary who moved to Ceylon in 1817 alongside his wife.  In 1822 he founded Cotta (Kotte) as the centre of the Church Missionary Society near Colombo where he worked among the Sinhalese population to develop Christian schools and teach literacy and religion. The Cotta Church Mission Press printed works to aid instruction of the local population.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book is unrecorded on OCLC (Worldcat) i\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003en either its first or second edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eDennis Rhodes, The Spread of Printing: lndia, Pakistan, Ceylon, Burma and Thailand, Amsterdam: Vangendt and Company, 1969\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"De Bry Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56618042458490,"sku":null,"price":2500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0624\/2969\/2075\/files\/PHOTO-2025-10-25-22-56-47.jpg?v=1771908222","url":"https:\/\/debryrarebooks.com\/products\/unrecorded-english-grammar-printed-at-the-cotta-church-mission-press-kotte-in-sri-lanka-1834-elements-of-english-grammar-by-samuel-lambrick","provider":"De Bry Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}