The generall historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles
Subtitle: with the names of the adventurers, planters, and governours from their first beginning, an[n]o 1584 to this present 1624, with the proceedings of those severall colonies and the accidents that befell them in all their journyes and discoveries : also the maps and descriptions of all those countryes, their commodities, people, government, customes, and religion yet knowne : divided into sixe bookes
By: by Captaine Iohn Smith, sometymes governour in those countryes & admirall of New England.
Contributors: Dawson, John, d. 1634, printer.; Haviland, John, fl. 1613-1638, printer.; Sparke, Michael, d. 1653, bookseller.; Franklin, William Buel, 1823-1903, donor.; English Printing Collection (Library of Congress); John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress); John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed by I. D[awson] and I. [Haviland] for Michael Sparkes
Published: 1624
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
Subjects: Indians of North America -- Virginia -- Early works to 1800; Virginia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; New England -- History; Bermuda Islands -- History
Genres: Early works to 1800
Notes: Engraved t.p.

For an account of the variations in the editions of the "Generall historie" see Norton's Literary gazette, new ser., v. 1, p. 134-135, 218-219; also Pilling's Bibliography of the Algonquian languages, 1891, p. 470-472.

In regard to the probable cause of the hiatus in the paging (p. 97-104) see Edward Arber's ed. of Smith's Works, 1894, p. 490.

Signatures: pi1 )(² A-N⁴ P-2I⁴.

LC copy contains appended leaf with errata slip.

STC (2nd ed.) 22790

Thacher, II, p. 47 (Americana)

With presentation letter of William B. Franklin mounted on front endleaf.