A relation, or, Iournall of the beginning and proceedings of the English plantation setled at Plimoth in New England, by certaine English aduenturers both merchants and others
Subtitle: with their difficult passage, their safe ariuall, their ioyfull building of, and comfortable planting themselves in the now well defended towne of New Plimoth : as also a relation of fovre seuerall discoueries since made by some of the same English planters there resident ...
Contributors: Bellamie, John, -1654, bookseller; Cushman, Robert, 1579?-1625, author; Bradford, William, 1590-1657, author; Winslow, Edward, 1595-1655, author; Robinson, John, 1575?-1625, author of introduction, etc; Morton, George, -1624, editor; Barlow, Samuel L. M. (Samuel Latham Mitchill), 1826-1889, former owner
Publisher: Printed [by J. Dawson] for Iohn Bellamie, and are to be sold at his shop at the Two Greyhounds in Cornhill neere the Royall Exchange
Published: 1622
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 72
Subjects: Early works to 1800; History
Other titles: Iournall of the beginning and proceedings of the English plantation setled at Plimoth in New England, by certaine English aduenturers both merchants and others; Journall of the beginning and proceedings of the English plantation setled at Plimoth in New England, by certaine English adventurers both merchants and others; New-England in America
Work titles: Mourt's relation
Notes: Title page vignette; headpieces; initials.

Running title: New England in America.

First edition, second issue (Church 393) with C1 caption title: A relation or Iovrnall of the proceedings of the plantation setled at Plimoth in New England.

By William Bradford (section 1), Edward Winslow (sections 2-6), and Robert Cushman (section 7).

"To the reader" (3d prelim. leaf) signed: G. Movrt.

The main part of the narrative was probably written by William Bradford and Edward Winslow. G. Mourt (George Morton?) by whose name the relation is commonly known, seems to have had no other connection with it than that of writing the preface and giving the book to the press. cf. Young, Chronicles of the Pilgrim fathers, Boston, 1841, p. [109]-249.

Signatures: Áþ(-A1.4) B́þ Ćþ(℗łC1) D́þ-Ĺþ.

A1 and A4 are both blank, per Church, E.D.

C1 (unsigned) is a cancel; caption title begins "A relation or iournall ..". Variant: C1 is cancellandum; caption title begins "New-England .."

Church, E.D. Catalogue of books relating to the discovery and early history of North and South America, entry 393

English short title catalogue, entry S110454

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), entry 20074

Cataloged jmoschella 20161128

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in polished calf panelled in gilt. Spine rebacked in brown goatskin with title stamped lengthwise in gilt. The bookplates of Samuel Latham Mitchill Barlow and of the BPL are present on the front pastedown. The embossed stamp of the BPL is present on the title page. Title page is backed with modern white paper and A3 is bound-in between B4 and C1. Modern pencil marginalia present on some leaves.