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[no] 1584. to this present 1624. : 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 1624 history of Virginia, New England and the Summer Isles, printed in London by John Dawson and John Haviland for Michael Sparkes, drawing on the work of several contributors for an English readership of investors and colonists. The engraved portraits here show seated and standing figures in ruff collars, elaborate dress, and heraldic arms, with the oval framed portraits of Pocahontas, or Matoaka, in a tall hat and lace collar, offering designers Jacobean costume and formal framing devices.
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