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Author
Dawson, John, -1634?, printer
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. MB
Title
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 : 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 ..
Publisher
London : 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
Description
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: A⁴(-A1.4) B⁴ C⁴(±C1) D⁴-L⁴.
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
English short title catalogue
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.)
Cataloged
Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in polished calf paneled 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

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Language English
Publication date 1622
publication_date QS:P577,+1622-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Current location
IA Collections: bostonpubliclibrary; americana
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relationoriourna00daws
Notes No copyright page found. No table-of-contents pages found.
Authority file  OCLC: 1052542453
Source
Internet Archive identifier: relationoriourna00daws
https://archive.org/download/relationoriourna00daws/relationoriourna00daws.pdf
  • IA contributor: Boston Public Library

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