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 1626, with the procedings 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, -1634, printer; Haviland, John, active 1613-1638, printer; Sparke, Michael, -1653, bookseller; Barra, John, approximately 1574-1634, engraver; Symonds, William, 1556-1616?; English Printing Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed by I. D[awson] and I. H[aviland] for Michael Sparkes
Published: 1626
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
Subjects: Description and travel; Indians of North America; History
Notes: The title page is engraved and signed: Grauen by Iohn Barra.

First edition, London, 1624.

In line 8 of title and in the imprint the dates have been changed with a pen to read 1626.

For a detailed description of this and other editions, see A catalogue of books ... forming a part of the library of E.D. Church, comp. by G.W. Cole. New York, 1907 v. 2-3.

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 imperfect: leaves E2 and E3 bound out of order (reversed); portraits wanting; errata wanting.

In the LC copy, the folded plate, with the map of "Ould Virginia," appears to be in the second state described by Cole (Church Catalogue, v. 2, p. 937); the folded map of Virginia, eighth state (Cole, v. 2, p. 831); map of New England, eighth state (Cole, v. 2, p. 855). The folded plate, with the map of "The Summer Ils" is in the third state (Cole, v. 2, p. 938).

The proceedings and accidents of the English colony in Virginia ... by William Symonds: p. 41-94.

STC (2nd ed.) 22790b