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Thomas Slaughter
Entred for his Copie under the handes of
master Doctor Jefferay and master Purfoote
Warden The true travells adventures
and observations of Captaine John Smith in
Europe Asia etc from Anno Domini 1593 to
1629 ..... vid

(Arber, ed., Registers, IV, 218.)

Editions

Early:

1630.

• THE ∥ TRUE TRAVELS, ∥ ADVENTURES, ∥ AND ∥ OBSERVATIONS
  ∥ OF ∥ Captaine John Smith, ∥ In Europe, Asia, Affrica, and America, from
  Anno ∥ Domini 1593. to 1629. ∥ His Accidents and Sea-fights in the Straights; his
  Service ∥ and Stratagems of warre in Hungaria, Transilvania, Wallachia, and ∥ Mol-
  davia, against the Turks, and Tartars; his three single combats ∥ betwixt the Christian
  Armie and the Turkes. ∥ After how he was taken prisoner by the Turks, sold for a
  Slave, sent into ∥ Tartaria; his description of the Tartars, their strange manners and
  customes of ∥ Religions, Diets, Buildings, Warres, Feasts, Ceremonies, and ∥ Living;
  how hee slew the Bashaw of Nalbrits, in Cambia, ∥ and escaped from the Turkes and
  Tartars. ∥ Together with a continuation of his generall History of Virginia, ∥ Summer-
  Iles, New England, and their proceedings, since 1624. to this ∥ present 1629; as also
  of the new Plantations of the great ∥ River of the Amazons, the Iles of St. Christopher
  Mevis, ∥ and Barbados, in the West Indies. ∥ All written by actuall Authours, whose
  names ∥ you shall finde along the History. ∥ [Horizontal rule] ∥ London, ∥ Printed
  by J. H. for Thomas Slater, and are to bee ∥ sold at the Blew Bible in Greene Arbour.
  1630. ∥

  Folio, pp. [12], 60. A in six (with Smith's arms on the verso of the title page in
  many copies), B — G in fours, H in six. Folded plate in nine compartments at end
  (though the Grenville copy in the B.L. has all nine cut apart and pasted on inserts
  

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  in the text [shelf mark G 7195]). The plate appears in two states with minor differences,
  and the headpiece of sig. A3r appears in two forms (for the details, see Joseph
  Sabin et al., eds., A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, XX [New York, 1927–
  1928], 260). In some copies, p. 15 is mispaged 13, while mispaging of p. 34 as 36 is
  more common. [NOTE: See the abbreviated version published by Samuel Purchas
  in Pilgrimes (1625), II, 1361–1370, reprinted as Fragment J, below.]

1678.

• An abridged translation, Seer gedenckwaerdige vorjagian, etc., trans. J. Sanderson
  (Amsterdam), has been noted by Edward Arber, ed., Captain John Smith ... Works,
  1608–1631 (Birmingham, 1884), cxxxi, but has not been available to the editor.

Modern:

1704.

• A Collection of Voyages and Travels, ed. John Churchill (London).

1706.

• Naaukeurige versameling ..., ed. Pieter van der Aa (Leiden).

1707.

• Wijd-Beroemde voyagien ... gedaan door de Engelsen, I, ed. Pieter van der Aa
  (Leiden).

1727.

• Reprint, Wijd-Beroemde voyagien ..., ed. Pieter van der Aa (Leiden).

1732.

• Collection of Voyages, ed. Churchill. Another edition.

1744–1746.

• Another edition.

1752.

• Another edition.

1819.

• The True Travels, Adventures and Observations ..., [ed. John Holt Rice] (Richmond,
  Va.).

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 in Volume I.

1907.

• The True Travels and Adventures of Captain John Smith, ed. Alexander J. Philip
  (London and New York).

1907.

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

1908.

• English Literature for Schools, ed. E. A. Benians (Cambridge).

1930.

• The True Travels, Adventures, and Observations ..., intro. by John Gould
  Fletcher and bibliographical note by Lawrence C. Wroth (New York).

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