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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Entry in the Stationers' Register
3° Junii 1616
Robert Clerke
Entred for his Copie under the handes
of master [John] Sanford and master
[Humphrey] Lownes Warden a booke
called A Discription of New Englande by
John Smithe ..... vid
(Arber, Registers, III, 588.)
Editions
A || DESCRIPTION || of New England: || OR || THE OBSERVATIONS,
AND || discoveries, of Captain John Smith (Admirall || of that Country) in the North
of America, in the year || of our Lord 1614: with the successe of sixe Ships, || that went the
next yeare 1615; and the || accidents befell him among the || French men of warre: || With
the proofe of the present benefit this || Countrey affoords: whither this present
yeare, || 1616, eight voluntary Ships are gone || to make further tryall. || [Ornamental rule]
|| At LONDON || Printed by Humfrey Lownes, for Robert Clerke; and || are to be sould
at his house called the Lodge, || in Chancery lane, over against Lin- || colnes Inne.
1616. ||Quarto, with one folded map, inserted in some contemporary copies before sig.
B1, and one inserted leaf described below; pp. xvi, 64 (62 and 63 unnumbered, 64
blank); ¶ including title page, and A-I in fours. The separate leaf, verso blank,
inserted at the front, has an explanatory heading. It is not found in all copies. Two
copies of the book have specially printed title pages in place of the usual one with
printed presentation inscriptions respectively to Lord Ellesmere, lord chancellor (in
the Huntington Library) and Sir Edward Coke, lord chief justice (in the Folger
Shakespeare Library). Outside these minor variations, there was but one edition,
with one setting of type.The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles ... (with
some additions and small changes) by John Smith (London), Book VI, 203-227.
Early:
1616.
1624.
Massachusetts Historical Society, Collections, 3d Ser., VI, 95-140 (Boston).
A Description of New England ..., printed by Peter Force (Washington, D. C.)
(repr. 1838).A Description of New England ..., printed by William Veazie (Boston).
Captain John Smith ... Works, 1608-1631, ed. Edward Arber (Birmingham).
See the list of issues of the Arber text in the General Introduction at the
beginning of this volume.A Description of New England ..., in American Colonial Tracts Monthly, Vol. II,
No. 1 (Rochester, N.Y.).
Modern:
1837.
1837.
1865.
1884, etc.
1898.
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