A description of the province of New Albion
Subtitle: and a direction for adventurers with small stock to get two for one, and good land freely : and for gentlemen, and all servants, labourers, and artificers, to live plentifully : And a former description re-printed of the healthiest, pleasantest, and richest plantation of Nevv Albion in North Virginia, proved by thirteen witnesses : Together with a letter from Master Robert Evelin, that lived there many yeers, shewing the particularities, and excellency thereof : With a brief of the charge of victual, and necessaries, to transport and buy stock for each planter, or labourer, there to get his master fifty pounds per annum, or more, in twelve trades, and at ten pounds charges onely a man.
Contributors: Evelyn, Robert, 17th cent.; Moxon, Joseph, 1627-1691, printer.; Bedford, Francis, 1799-1883, binder.
Publisher: Printed by James Moxon
Published: 1650
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
Subjects: New Albion; New Jersey -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Virginia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Notes: ESTC R10676
Preface signed: Beauchamp Plantagenet. Middleboro this 5 of Decemb. 1641.
First published in 1641.
Signatures: A-D⁴.
Pages 17-24 numbered 25-32, text continuous despite break in pagination.
The word "description" in line 2 of title is widely separated into two words: "descrip tion".
Coats of arms on t.p. verso.
P. 11-13 reprints the introduction and "Master Evelins letter" from: Evelyn, Robert. Direction for adventurers with small stock to get two for one, and good land freely.
LC copy signed binding: Bound by F. Bedford.