THE FIRST THREE ENGLISH BOOKS ON AMERICA [?1511] - 1555 A.d

Birmingham, U. K: Edward Arber, F. S. A, 1885. 1st Edition. Cloth. Very Good +. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Type: Book xlviii pp. - 408 pp., brown cloth bdg. with blind-stamped edges boards, gilt-stamped titling on front board and spine. Edited by Edward Arber. 'Each of the three Texts in this Volume is of great rarity; the first two are extraordinarily scarce' (note To The Reader)Richard Eden (c. 15201576), translator. Eden's importance as a translator and promoter of colonial projects and ideas makes him a key figure in the intellectual life of sixteenth-century England. His work had a major influence on that of Richard Hakluyt, and was reprinted in Hakluyt's Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Edward Arber (18361912), literary scholar. For many years he read for his friend James Murray's New English Dictionary and supplied the earliest uses of hundreds of words, technical as well as literary. Arber had a vast output of cheap reprints of literary works, both the well known and the obscure. VG+(scuffed edges bdg with worn through spots bottom edge and corners, owner signature on front end paper, paper slightly yellowed at edges, otherwise contents are pristine, a tight sound copy) In a custom made high gauge mylar DJ.Photo scan available upon request. Books sold to the USA are shipped USPS out of Champlain NY.