left behind him. Those later volumes are sketchy and full of gaps. In total, the First Division comprises 3,064 pages. Nothing has come out of the planned Second Division. Thus the work has never been completed. Lane's work focuses on classical vocabulary, thus later scholars found it necessary to compile supplements to the work for post-classical usage, such as the Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (1881; 2nd ed., 1927) by the Dutch Arabist Reinhart Dozy; also, the Wörterbuch der klassischen arabischen Sprache, being published from 1970 onwards by the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft, starts from Kāf, thus supplementing Lane's work in effect. The first draft of the lexicon, as well as the whole Taj al-ʿArus copied by Al-Dasuqi for Lane in 24 volumes, are now preserved in the British Library. Bibliographic details Edward William Lane, An Arabic–English Lexicon, vols 6–8 ed. by Stanley Lane-Poole, 8 vols (London: Williams and Norgate, 1863–93). Editions Digitisation at quranic-research.net Arabic–English Lexicon: Downloadable in eight volumes – when downloaded in the DjVu fileformat, the English text is searchable, the Arabic text is not searchable. Arabic–English Lexicon: Online searchable by the Arabic rootword Arabic–English Lexicon: Rootwords accessible online through a clickable list 1992. Cambridge, UK: Islamic Texts Society. 2 volumes. . 1980/1997. Beirut, Lebanon: Librairie du Liban. 8 volumes. 2003. New Delhi, India: Asian Educational Services. 8 volumes. . 2004. AramediA. CD-ROM. ASIN 3908153557. Year unknown. Lahore, Pakistan: Suhail Academy. 2 volumes (reprint of ITS ed.). . 2015. Qum, Iran: Entekhab, 1436 AH/ 1394 Sh/ 2015. 4 volumes. (With two prefaces in English and Persian by the contemporary Iranian academic, scholar, and translator, Dr. Muhammad-Reza Fakhr-Rohani). See also List of most expensive books and manuscripts Notes and references Arberry, A.J. (1960). Oriental Essays. London: George Allen & Unwin. Irwin, Robert (2006). For Lust of Knowing. London: Allen Lane. Roper, Geoffrey (1998). "Texts from Nineteenth-Century Egypt: The Role of E. W. Lane", in Paul and Janet Starky (eds) Travellers in Egypt, London; New York: I.B. Tauris, pp. 244–254. External links Lane's Arabic–English Lexicon: Downloadable in eight volumes (download it in the DjVu format, not the PDF format because the PDF format in this case only has the raw page photographs). Online edition linked by Arabic root to specific pages Online edition in Perseus Digital Library Project Online edition at Quranic-Research (optimized Perseus text) Online edition searchable by Arabic roots (provides column view for smaller screens) Arabic dictionaries