A plaine path-way to plantations
Subtitle: that is, A discourse in generall, concerning the plantation of our English people in other countries. Wherein is declared, that the attempts or actions, in themselues are very good and laudable, necessary also for our country of England. Doubts thereabout are answered: and some meanes are shewed, by which the same may, in better sort then hitherto, be prosecuted and effected. Written for the perswading and stirring vp of the people of this land, chiefly the poorer and common sort to affect and effect these attempts better then yet they doe. With certaine motiues for a present plantation in New-found land aboue the rest. Made in the manner of a conference, and diuided into three parts, for the more plainnesse, ease, and delight to the reader
By: By Richard Eburne of Hengstridge in the countie of Somerset
Publisher: Printed by G[eorge] P[urslowe] for Iohn Marriot
Published: 1624
Place of publication: [London]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 120
Subjects: Description and travel; Colonization
Other titles: Plaine path vvay to plantations.; Discourse in generall, concerning the plantation of our English people in other countries.; Path-way to plantations.
Notes: Name of printer from Pollard.

Place of publication supplied by Pollard.

Colonization tract in the form of a dialogue between the author and Respire, a farmer.

Part 2, p. [41]-80, 2nd count, and part 3, p. [5-6] and 89-120, 3rd and 4th counts, have separate dated title pages with imprint: London, Printed by G[eorge] P[urslowe] for Iohn Marriot.

Signatures: A-B⁴ (A1 verso blank) chi² (chi1 verso, chi2 blank) C-R⁴ (G4, H1, N3, versos R4 blank)

Errata: p. [17], 1st count.

Woodcut printer's vignettes on title page of second and third parts; head and tail pieces; initials.

Baer, E. Seventeenth century Maryland, 6.

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), 7471.

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, II: p. 184.

European Americana, 624/53.

English short title catalogue S105454.

Purchase; 1846; 0359.

John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: wanting p. [19-20], 1st count, blank leaf chi2; wanting p. [1-4], 3rd count; also wanting p. [1-2], 5th count, final blank leaf; some leaves closely cropped at head and foot of text block, affecting running titles and signature signings; p. 59-60, 2nd count, is wanting lower corner, affecting catch words.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in 19th century full speckled calf.