An English-Sinhalese Dictionary. de Carter, Charles Henry, Reverend - 1891

Colombo: George J. A. Skeen, Government Printer, 1891. First edition. 8vo, 22 x 14 cm; pp.xx, 1030. A very good copy in modern morocco-backed boards. Carter's monumental work, begun in 1881 when ill health compelled him to leave Ceylon, the Dictionary surpassed the earlier work of Benjamin Clough and was reprinted as late as 1965. A companion Sinhalese-English dictionary was published at Colombo in 1924. Carter's linguistic work was an offshoot of his main literary endeavor, translating the Bible into Sinhalese for the Baptist Missionary Society, which disapproved of the style of Tolfrey's translation. Hooper, pp.211-212.