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100 1 $aJohnson, Robert,$dactive 1586-1626.
245 10 $aNoua Britannia, offring most excellent fruites by planting in Virginia. :$bExciting all such as be well affected to further the same.
246 3 $aNova Britannia, offring most excellent fruites by planting in Virginia.
246 3 $aNoua Britannia, offering most excellent fruites by planting in Virginia.
246 3 $aNova Britannia, offering most excellent fruites by planting in Virginia.
260 $aLondon :$bPrinted [by John Windet] for Samuel Macham, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-Yard, at the signe of the Bul-Head,$c1609.
300 $a[40] p. ;$c18 cm (4to)
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent.
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia.
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier.
500 $aDedication, p. [5-6], signed: R.I.
500 $aAttributed to Robert Johnson by Pollard and Church.
500 $aPollard names John Windet as printer, whose ornamental initials belonged to the King's Printing Office, of which he was the proprietor.
500 $aThe Church Catalogue distinguishes six different issues of this tract; this is the second one listed there, with the title page showing the spelling of "offring", no head-piece with the royal arms, a woodcut of an armed ship under full sail, and the head piece of the dedication has a human figure, without legs, flanked by two beasts with human heads.
500 $aThe sheets are found in at least two settings indiscriminately mixed. Cf. Pollard.
500 $aSignatures: A-E⁴ (A1, E3 versos and E4 blank)
500 $aThe first leaf is blank except for signature mark "A"
500 $aWoodcut vignette of a sailing ship on title page; head and tail pieces; initials.
510 4 $aVail, R.W.G. Voice of the old frontier,$c15.
510 4 $aChurch, E.D. Catalogue of books relating to the discovery and early history of North and South America,$c338.
510 4 $aPollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.),$c14699.3.
510 4 $aBibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island,$cII: p. 60-61.
510 4 $aEuropean Americana,$c609/62.
510 4 $aEnglish short title catalogue,$cS109170.
541 $cPurchase;$d1846;$e0298.
590 $aJohn Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: wanting initial leaf blank except for the signature mark "A" and final blank leaf.
590 $aJohn Carter Brown Library copy bound in 19th century full red morocco.
590 $aProvenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: British Museum duplicate sale 1787: stamp on verso of title page.
651 0 $aVirginia$xDescription and travel.
653 $aImprint 1609.
710 2 $aBritish Museum.$bDepartment of Printed Books$4fmo$5RIBRL.
752 $aEngland$dLondon.
907 $a.b80029383$b05-21-21$c08-09-17
910 $aRDA ENRICHED
910 $aBackstage
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