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2 volumes. With Contributions by W.C. Strutevant, C.E. Raven, R.A. Skelton, and Louis B. Wright. Preface by Edward Croft-Murray. With 160 plates from the artwork of John White, 76 of which are in color, showing Native Americans, Eskimos, birds and other animals, plus other various subjects. (Folio), red cloth, gilt-stamped crest on front covers, spines lettered in gilt over black background, top edges gilt, publisher's black cloth slipcase with printed paper cover label. No. "U.K. 180" of 600 hand-numbered copies. First Edition.

Volume I: A Catalogue Raisonné and a Study of the Artist. Volume II: Reproductions of the Originals in Colour Facsimile and of Derivatives in Monochrome. was a British artist and colonist who first came to the Americas with Frobisher in 1577. He returned in 1585 with Thomas Harriot to collect and record information and the flora, fauna, and native peoples. His sympathetic portraits of the Carolina Algonquins were reproduced as engravings in de Bry's America, 1590.