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  A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia
By Thomas Harriot
Price: $12.95
This reprint of Thomas Harriot's 1590 edition features 28 engravings by Theodore de Bry (from John White) of Indian villages, activities, dress, and more. A great classic of Americana, this account of the first attempt to plant an English colony in America is also the first published book illustrated from drawings executed in what is now the United States. It features the work of artist John White, whose sketches represent the earliest authentic pictorial record of life in the New World. The celebrated "Adam and Eve plate" is considered to be one of the finest copper-plate engravings ever published and is emblematic of Europe's hope that the western hemisphere would prove a new Eden of peace and plenty.
"The Dover edition must rank as one of the finest achievements in reprinting to date." —Reprint Bulletin
91 pages, softcover, ISBN 0486210928, Dover Publications, 1972
What's related:
• View the online exhibition Early Images of Virginia Indians
• See The Story of Virginia online exhibition
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