Payne Smith's Syriac Lexicon

SYRIAC WATCH: "The clergyman and scholar Robert Payne Smith’s Syriac Lexicon was signed up in 1859. Peter Sutcliffe in his 'Informal History' of Oxford University Press says that it was 'thirty-three years in the press and the death of thirty-one compositors' ..." (Are we there yet?, Elizabeth Knowles, OUPblog)