The Beginners of a Nation: A History of the Source and Rise of the Earliest English Settlements in America with Special Reference to the Life and Character of the People

Illustrated with eight maps. Original tan buckram binding with gilt lettering on front board and spine. Contains large dampstain on bottom half of pages, including pastedowns, and cloth shows some buckling and rippling on rear board. Scuffing to board, and ownership information in ink on flyleaf. Minor pencil notations on pastedowns, pages are otherwise unmarked. All pages contain a margin with typeset notations allowing for easy location of subjects throughout the text; also contains an index. Contents include the rise of the first English colony including the James River experiments, the Puritan migration including separatism and the Scrooby Church, and centrifugal forces in colony-planting, including Catholic migration, religious freedom, and New England dispersions. Edward Eggleston (1837-1902) was an American historian and novelist. Hardcover, acceptable condition due to dampstain. 377 pages plus publisher's list, octavo.