MARC Record from Library of Congress

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050 00 $aF229$b.S62
100 1 $aSmith, John,$d1580-1631.
245 14 $aThe generall historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles :$bwith the names of the adventurers, planters, and governours from their first beginning, an[n]o 1584 to this present 1626, with the procedings of those severall colonies and the accidents that befell them in all their journyes and discoveries : also the maps and descriptions of all those countryes, their commodities, people, government, customes, and religion yet knowne : divided into sixe bookes /$cby Captaine Iohn Smith, sometymes governour in those countryes & admirall of New England.
260 $aLondon :$bPrinted by I. D[awson] and I. H[aviland] for Michael Sparkes,$c1626.
300 $a[14], 96, 105-248 p., [6] leaves of plates (4 folded) :$bill., maps, ports. ;$c29 cm. (fol.)
500 $aThe title page is engraved and signed: Grauen by Iohn Barra.
500 $aFirst edition, London, 1624.
500 $aIn line 8 of title and in the imprint the dates have been changed with a pen to read 1626.
500 $aFor a detailed description of this and other editions, see A catalogue of books ... forming a part of the library of E.D. Church, comp. by G.W. Cole. New York, 1907 v. 2-3.
500 $aIn regard to the probable cause of the hiatus in the paging (p. 97-104) see Edward Arber's ed. of Smith's Works, 1894, p. 490.
500 $aSignatures: pi1 )(² A-N⁴ P-2I⁴.
510 4 $aSTC (2nd ed.)$c22790b
500 $aLC copy imperfect: leaves E2 and E3 bound out of order (reversed); portraits wanting; errata wanting.$5DLC
500 $aIn the LC copy, the folded plate, with the map of "Ould Virginia," appears to be in the second state described by Cole (Church Catalogue, v. 2, p. 937); the folded map of Virginia, eighth state (Cole, v. 2, p. 831); map of New England, eighth state (Cole, v. 2, p. 855). The folded plate, with the map of "The Summer Ils" is in the third state (Cole, v. 2, p. 938).$5DLC
500 $aThe proceedings and accidents of the English colony in Virginia ... by William Symonds: p. 41-94.
651 0 $aVirginia$xHistory$yColonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
651 0 $aVirginia$xDescription and travel.
650 0 $aIndians of North America$zVirginia.
651 0 $aNew England$xHistory$yColonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
651 0 $aBermuda Islands$xHistory.
700 1 $aDawson, John,$d-1634,$eprinter.
700 1 $aHaviland, John,$dactive 1613-1638,$eprinter.
700 1 $aSparke, Michael,$d-1653,$ebookseller.
700 1 $aBarra, John,$dapproximately 1574-1634,$eengraver.
700 12 $aSymonds, William,$d1556-1616?$tProceedings and accidents of the English colony in Virginia.
710 2 $aEnglish Printing Collection (Library of Congress)$5DLC
752 $aEngland$dLondon