Unrecorded English Grammar printed at the Cotta (Kotte) Church Mission Press in Sri Lanka (Ceylon) -  1834 

"The Elements of English Grammar. For the use of the Youths in the Christian Institutions at Cotta."

-Printed in Ceylon at the Cotta Church Mission Press, 1834. 

-By the Reverend Samuel Lambrick 

-Second edition, 12mo (18 x 10cm)

-Complete: [4], 68, xxvii, [1]pp.

-Contemporary red calf with some wear. One quire loosening

The 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. "Presses 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)

The 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.

This book is unrecorded on OCLC (Worldcat) in either its first or second edition.

Dennis Rhodes, The Spread of Printing: lndia, Pakistan, Ceylon, Burma and Thailand, Amsterdam: Vangendt and Company, 1969