A letter from William Penn proprietary and governour of Pennsylvania in America, to the Committee of the Free Society of Traders of that province, residing in London. Containing a general description of the said province, its soil, air, water, seasons and produce, both natural and artifical, and the good encrease thereof. Of the natives or aborigines, their language, customs and manners, diet, houses or wigwams, liberality, easie way of living, physick, burial, religion, sacrifices and cantico, festivals, government, and their order in council upon treaties for land, &c. their justice upon evil doers. Of the first planters, the Dutch &c. and the present condition and settlement of the said province, and courts of justice, &c. As also an account of the city of Philadelphia newly laid out. Its scituation between two navigable rivers, Delaware and Skulkill, with a portraiture or plat-form thereof, wherein the purchasers lots are distinguished by certain numbers inserted. And the prosperou

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• A letter from William Penn proprietary and governour of Pennsylvania in America, to the Committee of the Free Society of Traders of that province, residing in London. Containing a general description of the said province, its soil, air, water, seasons and produce, both natural and artifical, and the good encrease thereof. Of the natives or aborigines, their language, customs and manners, diet, houses or wigwams, liberality, easie way of living, physick, burial, religion, sacrifices and cantico, festivals, government, and their order in council upon treaties for land, &c. their justice upon evil doers. Of the first planters, the Dutch &c. and the present condition and settlement of the said province, and courts of justice, &c. As also an account of the city of Philadelphia newly laid out. Its scituation between two navigable rivers, Delaware and Skulkill, with a portraiture or plat-form thereof, wherein the purchasers lots are distinguished by certain numbers inserted. And the prosperou
• Directions of reference in the city-draught of Philadelphia Portraiture of the city of Philadelphia in the province of Pennsylvania in America

People / Organizations

• appointment of ("printed by")
• William Penn (Author)

Imprint

[London]: Printed by appointment of the said committee, by Andrew Sowle, at the Crooked-Billet in Holloway-Lane in Shoreditch, 1683.

Publication year

1683-1683

ESTC No.

R40046

Grub Street ID

121893

Description

14 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 2⁰

Note

Place of publication from Wing.

The engraved map,"A portraiture of the city of Philadelphia in the province of Pennsylvania in America" by Thomas Holme Surveyor General, is in two states. The imprint reads: 1) "Sold by Iohn Thornton in the Minories and Andrew Sowle in Shoreditch London" or 2) "Sold by Andre Sowle in Shoreditch London".

An imprint variant of the issue with "Printed and sold by Andrew Sowle" in place of "Printed by appointment of the said committee, by Andrew Sowle" in imprint. In these issues parts of the title page and B2v and C1 are reset. Line 5 of title has "proprietary", line 29 of title reads "And the prosperous and advantagious settlements of the society aforesaid, within", on p. 9 the last line of text reads "find me", and the words "Your kind and cordial friend" precede "William Penn".

The catalogue of purchasers names (with caption title, "Directions of reference in the city-draught of Philadelphia, ...", p. 11-14) is frequently lacking in this issue, although the catchword "Directions" is found on C1v.

Uncontrolled note

Wing CD-Rom gives "poprietary" for this imprint; CSmH copy has "proprietary"