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[Vaughan (William)], "Orpheus Junior". The Golden

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3 parts in 1, first edition, lacking map, 2C2&3 and ?blank ff., title 1a2&3 torn and repaired with loss, not affecting text, mounted on stubs, 3L2 verso and 3L3 soiled, occasional marginal damp-staining, touching text in places, 17th century notes to title, modern blind-stamped calf, [Sabin 98693], sm. 4to, for Francis Williams, 1626.

***William Vaughan (1577-1641), poet and colonial pioneer. Vaughan bought a portion of the new territory of Newfoundland in 1616, and began steadily colonising it at his own expense. Vaughan visited the territory himself in 1622, but returned to England in 1625 and published The Golden Fleece a year later. He used the book, a mixture of fact, fantasy and verse, to promulgate his theories about "the Errours of Religion, the Vices and Decayes of the Kingdome, and lastly the wayes to get wealth, and to restore Trading" through the colonisation of Newfoundland..

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