New England trials. : Declaring the success of 26 ships employed thither within these sixe yeares; with the benefit of that countrey by sea and land: and how to build threescore sayle of good ships, to make a little navie royall / written by Captaine Iohn Smith.
A manuscript copy of the first edition in the Bodleian Library, done is quasi-pen-facsimile fashion. This compositor's copy was commissioned by the American antiquarian Charles Deane and used to set the type for his edition published in the 1873 Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society (a...
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| Language: | English |
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London :
Printed by William Iones,
1620.
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Handwritten notes by Charles Deane on a front fly-leaf, one providing instructions to the printer.
Laid in are two letters from Maria Lead-Lamert to Charles Deane; one letter from Henry O. Coxe to Charles Deane; a note from G.H. Moore to Charles Deane; and a handwritten list of names, apparently recipients of the edition of "New England trials" that Deane was preparing.
Bookplate of Mellinger Edward Henry and Florence Stokes Henry on front paste-down. |
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Contemporary quarter red leather and marbled boards; many blank leaves bound in at the end. |
| Physical Description: | 18 leaves ; 34 cm |
| Format: | Book |
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