Morton, Thomas. New English Canaan or New Canaan. : Containing an abstract of New England, composed in three bookes. The first booke setting forth the originall of the natives, their manners and customes, together with their tractable nature and love towards the English. The second booke setting forth the naturall indowments of the country, and what staple commodities it yealdeth. The third booke setting forth, what people are planted there, their prosperity, what remarkable accidents have happened since the first planting of it, together with their tenents and practise of their church. Written by Thomas Morton of Cliffords Inne gent, upon tenne yeares knowledge and experiment of the country

STC (Addenda): 18202
Folger bibliographic ID: 163641
STC number: 18202
ESTC number: S110060
Folger call number: STC 18202 copy 1
Folger holdings ID: 157107

Bibliographic format

quarto

General notes

Partly in verse The title page is a cancel With two final contents leaves Signatures: A⁴(±A1) B-2A⁴ Regarding an earlier suppressed ed. see PBSA 80 (1986): 369-74 -- STC Addenda Entered to C. Greene 18 November 1633

Item information about Folger STC 18202 copy 1

csS0532. Manuscript numbered "2" on t.p.; manuscript pencilled note on 2A2v. Red goatskin binding with gilt fillets and turn-ins by Stikeman & Co.; all edges gilt. Provenance: bought by Folger from Rosenbach, March 1927

Extended title: New English Canaan or New Canaan. : Containing an abstract of New England, composed in three bookes. The first booke setting forth the originall of the natives, their manners and customes, together with their tractable nature and love towards the English. The second booke setting forth the naturall indowments of the country, and what staple commodities it yealdeth. The third booke setting forth, what people are planted there, their prosperity, what remarkable accidents have happened since the first planting of it, together with their tenents and practise of their church. Written by Thomas Morton of Cliffords Inne gent, upon tenne yeares knowledge and experiment of the country
Alternate titles: New Canaan, New English Canaan

New England Indians of North America Massachusetts

author: Morton, Thomas, 1575-1646
former owner: Harmsworth, R. Leicester Sir, (Robert Leicester), 1870-1937