First edition. Punjabi text printed in Gurmukhi and Romanized. Modern half calf over cloth; final quire with some light spotting, final leaf with a repaired tear. An enlarged Punjabi dictionary compiled on the orders of the Punjab Government as a replacement for the Ludhiana Mission's 1854 dictionary, long out-of-print. When the American Presbyterians of the Ludhiana Mission were unable to undertake the revision of the text, Denzil Ibbetson, Director of Public Instruction, Punjab invited Harsukh Rai, proprietor of the Koh-i-Nur Press, Lahore, to produce a new edition in 1884. The provincial government agreed to subsidize production and purchase a number of copies, subject to the text's approval by the Punjab Text-Book Committee. The specimen pages were approved in 1886, but Harsukh Rai's death halted production, which was transferred to Munshi Gulab Singh & Sons, another prominent Lahori publisher, who purchased a large quantity of Gurmukhi type for the dictionary.