A true declaration of the estate of the colonie in Virginia
Subtitle: with a confutation of such scandalous reports as haue tended to the disgrace of so worthy an enterprise
By: Published by aduise and direction of the Councell of Virginia
Publisher: Printed [by Eliot's Court Press and William Stansby] for William Barret, and are to be sold [by Edward Blount] at the blacke Beare in Pauls Church-Yard
Published: 1610
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 68
Subjects: Shipwrecks; Colonization; History
Other titles: Trve declaration of the estate of the colonie in Virginia.; True declaration of Virginia.
Notes: Names of printer and bookseller supplied by Pollard.

According to Pollard, Eliot's Court Press printed gatherings A-F and William Stansby printed ²F and H-I.

A variant exists where the ²F gathering has been correctly signed G.

This tract was written when many were advocating the abandonment of the Virginia colony, and is an earnest plea for its continuance. It gives the first account of the shipwreck of Sir George Somers, Sir Thomas Gates, and Captain Newport, in 1609, upon the Bermudas or Somers Island. Cf. Church.

Signatures: A-F⁴ (A1 blank, A2 verso blank) ²F⁴ H-I⁴

The first leaf is blank except for signature-mark "A"

Woodcut printer's vignette on title page; head and tail pieces; initials.

Vail, R.W.G. Voice of the old frontier, 28.

Church, E.D. Catalogue of books relating to the discovery and early history of North and South America, 348.

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), 24833.

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, II: p. 73.

European Americana, 610/119.

English short title catalogue, S122265.

Purchase; 1846; 0299.