The generall historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles : with 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 / by Captaine Iohn Smith, sometymes governour in those countryes & admirall of New England.

The title page is engraved and signed: Grauen by Iohn Barra.

First edition, London, 1624.

In line 8 of title and in the imprint the dates have been changed with a pen to read 1626.

For 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.

In 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.

Signatures: pi1 )(² A-N⁴ P-2I⁴.

STC (2nd ed.) 22790b

LC copy imperfect: leaves E2 and E3 bound out of order (reversed); portraits wanting; errata wanting. DLC

In 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). DLC

The proceedings and accidents of the English colony in Virginia ... by William Symonds: p. 41-94.