WINGFIELD, Edward Maria.

"A Discourse of Virginia."

Item #81264

WINGFIELD, Edward Maria. "A Discourse of Virginia." By Edward Maria Wingfield, the First President of the Colony. Now First Printed From the Original Manuscript in The Lambeth Library. Boston: Privately Printed, 1860. Tall 8vo. Orig. cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, a.e.g. Cloth a bit sunned and stained, previous owners bookplate on front pastedown. Very good or better. Howes W-565. Haynes 21555. ANB 23, 635-36. Rare. Limited to 100 copies, privately printed, and edited by Charles Deane. This work was originally issued in 1859 but errors having been found, that edition was cancelled. This corrected edition was issued the following year. The first publication of this valuable primary account of the Virginia colony in 1607-1608, the original manuscript having been found in the Lambeth Library. Edward Wingfield was one of the original patentees of the Virginia colony and its first president. His tenure was turbulent, with complaints about lack of food, rampant disease, and attacks from nearby Indians, and his fellow colonists eventually turned on him and imprisoned him. Wingfield's narrative is a necessary adjunct to that of Capt. John Smith, whom Wingfield blamed for many of his troubles. Not in Sabin.

Price: $750.00