Author: CELL, GILLIAN T; Editor.
Title: Newfoundland Discovered. English Attempts At Colonisation, 1610-1630. Hakluyt Society Second Series No. 160.
Description: First Edition; 8vo; pp. xviii, 310; map frontispiece, 2 maps, 2 b/w illustrations, index, bibliography (located at front), sources, (located at front), original blue cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, illustration in gilt on front board, dustjacket, minor chipping to bottom of spine and corners, light flecking to top of page edges, otherwise a very good copy. London, The Hakluyt Society, 1982. Despite the relative obscurity surrounding the earliest English settlements in Newfoundland, the documents in this volume show that they were neither unimportant nor, ultimately, unsuccessful.

Keywords: hakluyt society newfoundland colonisation british english history england britain maritime