| British Library: | 010655.cc.27 |
| Curwen Press: | B34 |
| British Library: | 010655.cc.27 |
| Curwen Press: | B34 |
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PIERRE DU GUA SIEUR DE MONTS RECORDS: COLONIAL AND 'SAINTONGEOIS' COLLECTED AND EDITED BY WILLIAM INGLIS MORSE, D. Litt., LL.D. Member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, of the Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, of the Nova Scotia Historical Society, of the Historical Society of Annapolis Royal, of the Canadian Historical Society, etc. LONDON BERNARD QUARITCH LTD 11 GRAFTON STREET 1939
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225 COPIES OF PIERRE DU GUA, SIEUR DE MONTS, HAVE BEEN PRINTED AT THE CURWEN PRESS, PLAISTOW, LONDON. NUMBERS 50-225 ONLY ARE FOR SALE BY BERNARD QUARITCH LTD., 11 GRAFTON STREET, NEW BOND STREET, LONDON, ENGLAND THIS COPY IS NUMBER [space for serial number]
[A]8 B-G8 [1]4 H8(minus H7,8) [2]6 [3]4 I4; inserts after [A]3 D7, and sections [1-3] are wholly inserts; once-folded throwout after H4.
[14] xiii-xiv [1-2] 3-39 [40-2] 43-67 [68-70] 71-92 [93-4] 95-6 [97-8] 99-105 [106-8] 109-12 (N.B. these 4 pages are inserts [3]1 and [3]4) [113-4] 115-8 [+2].
Crown 4o: 9¾" × 7⅜", trimmed, top edge gilt, artificial head- and tail-bands,white wove, no mark, inserts similar; 12pt. Bembo; line block illustrations in text; collotype illustrations on inserts in [A] and D and sections [1-2] and [3]2+3; casing, light blue buckram, spine gold-blocked: ‘MORSE [rule] Pierre du Gua, Sieur de Monts Quaritch London 1939’.
Curwen library copy was un-numbered.
Pierre du Gua (born in Saintonge, France c.1560) was the founder of Port-Royal, the first permanent settlement in Canada, Governor of Acadia.
Robin Phillips, 1963