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.
John Smith's 1627 compendium The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles, printed in London for Michael Sparkes, chronicles English colonies in North America from 1584 to 1626 for an English readership of adventurers and planters. Its pictures are ornamental: a grotesque strapwork border with a central mask, a repeating rosette band, a headed section title, and a heraldic coat of arms with a motto scroll, offering designers historic border, panel, and armorial motifs.
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