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THE COMPLETE WORKS OF Captain John Smith

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ABBREVIATIONS AND SHORT TITLES

THE COMPLETE WORKS OF Captain John Smith

AN ACCIDENCE or the Path-way to Experience

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TO ALL THE RIGHT Honorable And most Generous Lords in England, and Others: Especially of his Majesties Privy Councell, and Councell of Warre.

TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFULL Sir Robert Heath, Knight etc.

TO THE READER; And All Generous And Noble Adventurers by Sea; And Well-Wishers to Navigation. Especially The Masters, Wardens, and Assistance of the Trinity-House.

AN ACCIDENCE for Young Sea-men: Or, Their Path-way to Experience.

TEXTUAL ANNOTATION AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE TO

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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

A SEA GRAMMAR ...

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TO ALL THE RIGHT Honourable, and most generous Lords in England, especially those of his Majesties Privy Councell, and Councell of Warre.

TO THE READER And All Worthy Adventurers by Sea, and well wishers to Navigation.

TO HIS WELL Deserving friend Captaine John Smith.

TO THE MUCH deserving Captaine, John Smith.

TO HIS WORTHILY-deserving friend Captaine John Smith.

IN LAUDEM NOBILISSIMI viri Johannis Smith.

TO HIS FRIEND Captaine Smith, on his Grammar.

TEXTUAL ANNOTATION AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE TO

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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

THE TRUE TRAVELS, Adventures, and Observations of Captaine John Smith

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TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE, William Earle of Pembroke, Lord Steward of his Majesties most Honourable Houshold. Robert Earle of Lindsey, Great Chamberlaine of England. Henrie Lord Hunsdon, Vicount Rochford, Earle of Dover. And all your Honourable Friends and Well-willers.

TO MY WORTHY FRIEND, Captaine John Smith.

TO MY NOBLE brother and friend, Captaine John Smith.

TO HIS VALIANT and deserving friend, Captaine John Smith.

TO MY WORTHY FRIEND, Captaine John Smith.

TO HIS WORTHY FRIEND, Captaine John Smith.

TO MY WORTHY FRIEND, Captaine John Smith.

TO MY WELL DESERVING friend, Captaine John Smith.

TO HIS APPROVED friend, the Authour; Captaine John Smith.

TO THE VALOUROUS and truly-vertuous souldier, Captaine John Smith.

TO HIS NOBLE FRIEND, Captaine John Smith.

TO HIS TRULY deserving friend, Captaine John Smith.

THE TRUE TRAVELS, ADVENTURES, AND OBSERVATIONS Of Captaine John Smith, in Europe, Asia, Africke, and America: beginning about the yeere 1593, and continued to this present 1629.

TEXTUAL ANNOTATION AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE TO The True Travels

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ADVERTISEMENTS for the Unexperienced Planters of New England, or Any Where

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TO THE MOST Reverend Father in God, George Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterburie his Grace, Primate and Metrapolitan of all England: and The Right Reverend Father in God, Samuel Lord Arch-Bishop of Yorke his Grace, Primate and Metrapolitan of England.

ADVERTISEMENTS: Or, The Path-way to Experience to erect a Plantation.

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Fragment A. 1613. SAMUEL PURCHAS'S First Mention of John Smith

Fragment B. 1613. THE SMITH/HOLE MAP Reported in Print

Fragment C. 1613. SAMUEL PURCHAS and Smith's True Relation

Fragment D. 1613. ENGLISH DOMESTICATED BOARS Frighten Indians

Fragment E. 1616. CAPT. EDWARD BRAWNDE'S Letter to John Smith

Fragment F. December 1616. A SPANISH SUMMARY of Correspondence Involving "Juan Smith"

Fragment G. 1623? JULIUS CAESAR'S REMEDY for "Panique Feares"

Fragment H. 1624. TWO COMPLEMENTARY COUPLETS in Smith's Generall Historie

Fragment I. 1625. SAMUEL PURCHAS'S MENTION of Smith's "Fiery Torches"

Fragment J. 1625. SAMUEL PURCHAS'S PROTOTYPE of Smith's True Travels

SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY for Fragment J

THE TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES of Captaine John Smith in divers parts of the world, begun about the yeere 1596.

TEXTUAL ANNOTATION TO Fragment J

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Fragment K. 1627. Smith'S COMMENDATORY VERSES for John Taylor

Fragment L. 1628. Smith'S COMMENDATORY VERSES for Robert Norton

AUXILIARY DOCUMENTS

Document i. RECORD OF Capt. John Smith's Baptism

Document ii. LAST WILL of George Smith, Father of Captain John

Document iii. INVENTORY OF George Smith's Property

Document iv. CAPT. John Smith'S Last Will

Document v. CONFIRMATION OF

Document vi. ORIGINAL EPITAPH in St. Sepulchre's Church, London

BIBLIOGRAPHY AND INDEXES

INDEX OF INDIAN WORDS

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Entry in the Stationers' Register

130 Augusti 1627.

Mistris [Anne] Griffin
master [John] Havilond.
Entred for their Copie under the handes
of Master Doctor [Thomas?] Worrall
and both the wardens [Master Clement
Knight and Master Edmund Weaver] A
booke Called A sea grammer by Captain
John Smith .................... vid

(Arber, Registers, IV, 184.)

Editions

Early:

1627. [Headpiece] ∥ A Sea Grammar, ∥ With ∥ THE PLAINE Exposition ∥ of
Smiths Accidence for young ∥ Sea-men, enlarged. ∥ Divided into fifteene Chapters:
what they are you ∥ may partly conceive by the Contents. ∥ Written by Captaine
John Smith, sometimes ∥ Governour of Virginia, and Admirall of ∥ New-England.
∥ [ornament] ∥ London, ∥ Printed by John Haviland, ∥ 1627. ∥

Quarto, pp. [12], 1–72, 83–86 (there are no pages 73–82); A in two, (a) in four,
B–K in fours, L in two.

1653. The Sea-mans Grammar: ... Imprinted at London, and are to be sold by
Andrew Kemb, at St. Margarets Hill in Southwark, 1653.

For a description of this edition, see Joseph Sabin et al., eds., A Dictionary of
Books Relating to America, XX (New York, 1927–1928), 252.

1691. The Sea-mans Grammar and Dictionary, ... London; Printed, and are to
be Sold by Randal Taylow near Stationers Hall, MDCXCI.

For a description of this edition, see Sabin, Dictionary, 252–253.

1692. The Sea-mans Grammar and Dictionary, ... London; Printed for Tho. Dring
and B. Griffin, and are to be Sold at the Harrow at Chancery-Lane end in Fleetstreet,
1692.

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This issue is from the same setting of type as the preceding. See Sabin, Dictionary,
253–254.

1699. The Sea-man's Grammar and Dictionary, ... London; Printed for Richard
Mount, at the Postern on Tower-Hill, 1699.

For a description, see Sabin, Dictionary, 254.

Modern:

1907. The Generall Historie of Virginia ... Together with the True Travels ... and A Sea
Grammar, 2 vols. (Glasgow).

1970. A Sea Grammar with the Plaine Exposition of Smiths Accidence for Young Sea-Men,
Enlarged, ed. Kermit Goell (London).