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THE COMPLETE WORKS OF Captain John Smith
  
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FOREWORD
  
PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  
CONTENTS
  
MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS
  
EDITORIAL METHOD>
  
ABBREVIATIONS AND SHORT TITLES
  
BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY
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BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH
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GENERAL INTRODUCTION

  
THE COMPLETE WORKS OF Captain John Smith
  
A TRUE RELATION of Such Occurrences and Accidents of Noate as Hath Hapned in Virginia ...
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A True Relation of such occurrences and accedents of noate as hath hapned in Virginia since the first planting of that Collony, which is now resident in the South part thereof, till the last returne from thence.
  
TO THE COURTEOUS READER.
  
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A TRUE RELATION of such occurrences and accidents of note, as hath hapned in Virginia, since the first planting of that Collony, which is now resident in the South part thereof, till the last returne.
  
TEXTUAL ANNOTATION AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE TO A True Relation
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A MAP OF VIRGINIA. With a Description of the Countrey, the Commodities, People, Government and Religion
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A MAP OF VIRGINIA.
  
TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
  
TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFULL
  
TO THE HAND.
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THE DESCRIPTION OF VIRGINIA
  
TEXTUAL ANNOTATION AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE TO A Map of Virginia
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THE PROCEEDINGS of the English Colonie in Virginia, [1606-1612] ...
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INTRODUCTION
  
Printing History
  
Note on the Authors Who Collaborated in the Proceedings
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THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENGLISH COLONIE IN
  
TO THE READER.
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THE PROCEEDINGS of the English Colony in Virginia, taken faithfully out of the writings of Thomas Studly Cape-marchant, Anas Todkill, Doctor Russell, Nathaniel Powell, William Phetiplace, and Richard Pot, with the laboures of other discreet observers, during their residences.
  
TEXTUAL ANNOTATION TO The Proceedings of the English Colonie in Virginia
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A DESCRIPTION of New England ...
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A DESCRIPTION of New England:
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For the Right Honourable, Sir Edward Coke, Lord Chiefe Justice of England.
  
TO THE HIGH Hopeful Charles, Prince of Great Britaine.
  
TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE and worthy Lords, Knights, and Gentlemen, of his Majesties Councell, for all Plantations and discoveries; especially, of New England.
  
TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFULL Adventurers for the Countrey of New England, in the Cities of London, Bristow, Exceter, Plimouth, Dartmouth, Bastable, Totneys, etc. and in all other Cities and Ports, in the Kingdome of England.
  
IN THE DESERVED Honour of the Author, Captaine John Smith, and his Worke.
  
TO HIS WORTHY Captaine the Author.
  
TO MY WORTHY friend and Cosen, Captaine John Smith.
  
TO THAT WORTHY and generous Gentleman, my verie good friend, Captaine Smith.
  
TO HIS FRIEND Captaine Smith, upon his description of New England.
  
IN THE DESERVED HONOUR of my honest and worthie Captaine, John Smith, and his Worke.
  
MICHAEL PHETTIPLACE, William Phettiplace, and Richard Wiffing, Gentlemen, and Souldiers under Captaine Smiths Command: In his deserved honor for his Worke, and worth.
  
BECAUSE THE BOOKE WAS PRINTED ERE the Prince his Highnesse had altered the names, I intreate the Reader, peruse this schedule; which will plainely shew him the correspondence of the old names to the new.
  
A DESCRIPTION OF New-England,
  
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Letter to Sir Francis Bacon
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To the Right Honorable
  
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New Englands Trials
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NEW ENGLANDS TRIALS.
  
TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFUL The Maister, the Wardens, and the Companie of the Fish-mongers.
  
TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE,
  
NEW ENGLANDS TRIALS.
  
TEXTUAL ANNOTATION AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE TO New Englands Trials (1620)
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New Englands Trials
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NEW ENGLAND'S TRIALS.
  
TO THE MOST HIGH And Excellent Prince Charles, Prince of Wales; Duke of Cornewall, Yorke, and Albanie; Marquis of Ormond, and Rothsey; and Earle Palatine of Chester; Heire of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland, etc.
  
TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE And Right Worthy Adventurers, to all Plantations and Discoveries, their friends and well-willers, especially of Virginia and New England.
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NEW ENGLANDS TRIALS, and Present Estate.
  
TEXTUAL ANNOTATION AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE TO New Englands Trials (1622)
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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

    Early:

    1616.

  • 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.

    • 1624.

  • 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.

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    Modern:

    1837.

  • Massachusetts Historical Society, Collections, 3d Ser., VI, 95-140 (Boston).

    • 1837.

  • A Description of New England ..., printed by Peter Force (Washington, D. C.)
    (repr. 1838).

    • 1865.

  • A Description of New England ..., printed by William Veazie (Boston).

    • 1884, etc.

  • 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.

    • 1898.

  • A Description of New England ..., in American Colonial Tracts Monthly, Vol. II,
    No. 1 (Rochester, N.Y.).

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