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This page is about the book written by Thomas Hariot. For other uses, see Virginia (disambiguation).

A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia

Author	Thomas Hariot
Published in English	1588

"The first original English book describing the first English colony in America..."

Note that is probably a reproduction of

Further Reading

Full bibliography from Hulton 1972

"Books containing useful information on the historical background to the colonizing enterprises in Raleigh's Virginia and the personalities involved."

• A. L. Rowse, Sir Richard Grenville of the Revenge, London, 1937; reprinted 1949.
• A. L. Rowse, The Elizabethans and America, London, 1959
• B. B. Parks, Richard Hakluyt and the English Voyages, New York, 2nd Ed., 1968.
• S. E. Morison, The European Discovery of America; the Northern Voyages, A.D. 500-1600, New York, 1971

"On the folio edition of the Report see:"

• Thomas Harriot, A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia, 1588. A facsimile edition with an introduction by R. G. Adams, Ann Arbor, 1931.

"An exhaustive examination of the documents relating to the Virginia voyages, including the Report, is found in:"

• D. B. Quinn, The Roanoke Voyagews 1584-1590, 2 vols, (Hakluyt Society), London 1955

"The drawings of John White, with the De Bry engravings, are fully described an reproduced in facsimile in:"

• P. Hulton and D. B. Quinn, The American Drawings of John White, 2 vols, London and Chapel Hill, 1964

"A more accessible, less detailed, catalogue of the White drawings, with some reproductions in color, is contained in:"

• E. Croft-Murray and P. Hulton, Catalogue of British Drawings, [British Museum], vol. I, 2 pts., London, 1960

"On Harriot see:"

• H. Stevens, Thomas Hariot, London, 1900
• M. Rukeyser, Traces of Thomas Hariot, New York, 1970

Partial bibliography from Milton

• Quinn, David B. "Thomas Harriot and the Problem of America." The 1990 Thomas Hariot Lecture. Published in 1992.
• --- "Thomas Harriot and the Virginia Voyages of 1602." William and Mary Quarterly, 3d series, vol. 27, 1970.
• Salmon, Vivian. "Thomas Harriot and the English Origins of Algonkian Linguistics." Durham Thomas Harriot Seminar, no. 8, 1993.
• Shirley, John W. Thomas Harriot: A Biography. Oxford, 1983.

Bibliographical History

As part of the 1931 facsimile edition published by Edwards Brothers, Randolph Adams created a "Census" of exant copies of the quarto version of Virginia.

1893 edition 1885 privately printed

The 1590 edition of Thomas Harriot's A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia was perhpas the single most important sixteenth-century promotional work relating to North America. It combined the most realistic descritpion of American poeoples and resources with a series of engravings ilustrating the Carolina Algonquian Indians and their customs. Though it first appeared in a quarto edition of 1588 and again in Hakluyt's Principall Navigations in 1589, neither of these editions had the impact of the folio edition of 1590 published by the printer Theodore de Bry, who included a series of his own engravings based o nthe paintings of John White. The importance of the visual material was certainly not lost on de Bry, who printed the 1590 edition in four languages (German, French, and Latin as well as English). Here was a work to enlighten Europeans about the realities of life in America.