An encouragement to colonies
By: by Sir William Alexander, Knight.
Contributors: Stansby, William, fl. 1597-1638, printer.; English Printing Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed by William Stansby
Published: 1625
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 47
Subjects: Colonies; Canada -- History -- To 1763 (New France); America -- Discovery and exploration -- English -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: STC (2nd ed.) 341a
Reissue of 1st ed., 1624. Dedicated to Prince Charles. In 1630 it was reissued without the dedication, and with new t.p.: The map and description of New-England; together with a discourse of plantation, and colonies: also, A relation of the nature of the climate and how it agrees with our owne country England ... London, Printed for Nathaniel Butter, 1630.
Contains an account of the first settling of the northern parts of America, particularly of Canada by the French. cf. C. Rogers, Memorials of the Earl of Stirling, 1877, v. 1., p. 66-68.
Signatures: A⁴(-A1) B-G⁴.
LC copy lacks the original map, represented in this copy by a rather free ms. facsimile. The map was reissued in "Purchas his pilgrimes ... London, Printed by W. Stansby for H. Fetherstone, 1625," v. 4, between p. 1872-1873, and a reproduction is in S.G. Drake, "Result of some researches ... relative to the founders of New England," Boston, 1860, front., (cf. p. 10). Reproductions of the map also accompany the reprints of "An encouragement to colonies" in Laing's ed. of "Royal letters ... relating to the colonization of New Scotland ...", Edinburgh, 1867 (Bannatyne club publications, v. 114) and in Slafter's "Sir William Alexander and American colonization," Boston, 1873 (Prince society publications, v. 8). The part of the map relating to New England is reproduced in J.W. Thornton, "Landing at Cape Anne ..." Boston, 1854, opposite p. 15 (although there wrongly ascribed to Capt. John Smith) and in Winsor's Nar. & crit. hist., v. 3, p. 306.