1929 Bristol and America: A Record of the First Settlers in the Colonies of North America, 1654-1685

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First Edition, Illustrated, Scarce

The first edition of this scarce work in the publisher's original cloth binding with pictorial gilt to the front board.

The index to the work, which was sold separately from the main text and bound with staples, is loosely inserted.

A list, compiled and published from the records of the Corporation of the City of Bristol, of over 10,000 servants transported by ship from Bristol, England, to Virginia, Maryland, USA, and to the West Indies, between 1654 and 1685. These records were transcribed by R. Hargreaves-Mawdsley, with a preface by N. Dermott Harding and a historical introduction by William Dodgson Bowman.

From the library of W. A. Foyle at Beeleigh Abbey. William Foyle was the co-founder of Foyles bookshop, founding the leading bookshop in 1903 alongside his brother. He purchased Beeleigh Abbey during the Second World War, an impressive twelfth century monastery in Essex, which became home to his library, one the largest private libraries in England.